Monthly Archives: December 2014

OFFICIAL SECTION

Official Section

Films selected for Imagineindia 2026 (Not completed)

Raindrops on a Roof (Zhou Jiali) China

The Last Summer (Shi Renfei) China

Porshi (Chandrasish Ray) India

The Muralist (Sengedorj Janchivdorj) Mongolia

Summer´s Camera (Divine Sung) South Korea

The Nonsense (Lee Je-Hui) South Korea

Riverstone (Lalith Rathnayake) Sri Lanka

Ky Nam Inn (Leon Le) Vietnam

Films selected for Imagineindia 2025

Waterdrop (Robert Budina) Albania ————————————————In a picturesque Albanian town on the shores of Lake Ohrid, Aida reigns as a tough, successful businesswoman. As city planner, she manages the allocation of lucrative EU subsidies, navigating a corrupt system where her boss pockets large portions of the funds.

Strangers When we Meet (Zhang Guoli) China ——————————The film is based on the true story of “The Murder Girl Wearing a Wedding Dress.” After serving a 30-year sentence, QIN starts a new life with a government compensation of 1.5 million yuan for land expropriation.

Cineman (Umesh Bagade) India ————————————————Anand a voluntarily retired teacher, has started a movement to show films to school children in remote villages. Taking seriously the power of film as a medium and its impact on children, Anand continues to work to promote film literacy despite public opposition. Anand and his Children’s Film Club have been running an innovative initiative to teach children through cinema for the last 10 years.

House of Peace (Deepankar Prakash) India ———————————Ravi, a diligent man in his mid-30s, shoulders the responsibility of caring for his ailing grandfather, mentally disabled aunt, and grandmother after his parents’ tragic demise. Growing up in a modest household, he learns the value of duty early on. However, as the story progresses, the weight of his responsibilities takes a toll on him.

Pyre (Vinod Kapri) India ——————————————————————– A melancholic ballad of an undying love in a dying land. In the Himalayan Mountain range, a rural village loses its inhabitants to the city’s allure while an elderly couple, Padam Singh and Tulsi, live in desolate isolation. Their days are filled with routine and occasional humour as they mask their loneliness. Their son’s absence gnaws at them, and when a letter arrives promising his return.

Humans in the Loop (Aranya Sahya) India ————————————– Nehma, an Adivasi woman from the Oraon tribe, returns to her village with her children twelveyear- old Dhaanu and one-year-old Guntu, after her divorce. She begins to work as a data labeller, training the ‘childlike’ AI models to recognise images.

Aajoor (Aaryan Chandra Prakash) India ———————————–Aajoor explores the life of Saloni, a resilient girl from rural Bihar, who challenges societal norms to pursue her education while managing household responsibilities after her mother’s early demise. Supported by her father, a vocalist in a Launda Dance team, Saloni faces societal scorn but remains determined to change her destiny.

In The Name of Fire (Abhilash Sharma) India ———————————-In a remote village, Rukhiya and Phekan, both from the marginalized Dalit community, endure hardships due to their caste identity. With no work available in the village due to the ongoing temple renovation,

Samia (Yasemin Samdereli) Italy, Germany, Belgium

Deal at The Border (Dastan Zhapar Ryskeldi) Kyrgystan ——————At the Kyrgyzstan-Kazakhstan border, Aza and Samat work as members of a drug trafficking organization. One day, they run into Nazik, who has narrowly escaped from human traffickers. Aza decides to give up the drug money and save Nazik.

Wanderer (Mikhail Shevchuk) Russia ——————————————–On the threshold of a young teacher, Anya, living in a small seaside town, one day a wanderer appears who calls himself her husband Artyom, who has gone missing. How does this man know everything that only Artyom knew?

Minimals in a Titanic World (Philibert Aime Mbabazi) Rwanda, Germany, Cameroon ————————————————————————Let off with a warning for aggression, dancer and aspiring musician Anita returns from prison to perform at her bar, where she learns about the sudden death of her boyfriend, Serge. While close friends process the shock, Anita finds solace in the company of Serge’s roommate, Shema.

Norah (Tawfik Alzaidi) Saudi Arabia ——————————————Nader, a new schoolteacher and an artist in secret, arrives at the village and meets Norah, a young woman who ignites the creativity inside him and inspires him to paint again. At great risk, they develop a delicate connection and a quiet bond.

When The Walnut Leaves Turn Yellow! (Mehmet Ali Konar) Turkey In southeastern Turkey, Kurds who want to live their lives in peace are squeezed between the harassment of Turkish military patrols and the demands of the PKK guerrillas, all while land and pasture are scarce. Ciwan is the village chief.

Films selected for Imagineindia 2024

Money Exchange! (Lautaro García Candela) Argentine

Limbo (Ivan Sen) Australia

Blaga´s Lessons (Stephan Komandarev) Bulgaria/Germany

Lost Girl (Ding Ding) China

Privacy (Sudeep Kanwal) India

Dear Latika (Kanchan Pant) India

Kaleidoscope Now (Anjan Dutt) India

A Match (Jayant Somalkar) India

The Core (Jeo Baby) India

Melody (Behrouz Sebt Rasoul) Iran/Tajikistan

Scream (Kenzhebek Shaikakov) Kazakhstan

Man and Woman (Vladimir Kott) Russia

Seconds (Liese Kuhn) South Africa

Stigma (Chaminda Ilukwela) Sri Lanka

A House in Jerusalem (Muayad Alayan) UK, Palestine

Films selected for Imagineindia 2023

Little Tornadoes (Aaron Wilson) Australia

Cold as Marble (Asif Rustamov) Azerbaijan

On Either Sides of The Pond (Parth Saurabh) India

B32 to 44 (Shruthi Sharanyam) India

RK/RKay (Rajat Kapoor) India

Shivamma (Jaishankar Aryar) India

In the Form of Love (Siavash Asadi) Iran

Betulim (Maor Zagouri) Israel

Stone Turtle (Ming Jin Woo) Malaysia, Indonesia

The Secrets of Radha (Subarna Thapa) Nepal

Fog (Natalia Gugueva) Russia

A Letter from Kyoto (Minju Kim) South Korea

Munnel (Visakesa Chandrasekaram) Sri Lanka

Whispering Mountains (Jagath Manuwarna) Sri Lanka

Films selected for Imagineindia 2022

Funny Boy (Deepa Mehta) Canada

Donkeyhead (Agam Darshi) Canada

Yanagawa (Lu Zhang) China

The Coffin Painter (Da Fei) China

Streetwise (Jiazuo Na) China

Amira (Mohamed Diab) Egypt

Tree Full of Parrots (Jayaraj) India

Crescent Night (Gurvinder Singh) India

Receipt (Anuraag Pati) India

Eternally Younger Than Those Idiots (Ryohei Yoshino) Japan

Alborada (Asoka Handagama) Sri Lanka

Neighbours (Mano Khalil) Switzerland

2000 Songs of Farida (Yolkin Tuychiev) Uzbekistan

Films selected for Imagineindia 2021

Café by the Highway (Xiaofan Shi) China

As I Want (Samaher Alqadi) Egypt, France

Daniel´16 (Dimitris Koutsiabasakos) Greece

God On The Balcony (Biswajeet Bora) India

The Flute (Hari Viswanath) India

The Great Indian Kitchen (Jeo Baby) India

Can Neither Stay Here, Nor Journey Beyond (Girish Kasaravalli) India

Charcoal (Esmaeel Monsef) Iran

200 Meters (Ameen Nayfeh) Jordan

Shambala (Artykpay Suyundukov) Kyrgyztan

Second Chance (Marija Dzidzeva) Macedonia

Blindfold (Taras Dron) Ukraine

FILMS SELECTED FOR IMAGINEINDIA 2020

For Sama (Waad Al-Khateab, Edward Watts)  Great Britain

Shindisi (Dito Tsintsadze)  Georgia

Aamis (Bhaskar Hazarika)  India

Biriyaani (Sajin Babu)  India

Gamak Ghar (Achal Mishra)  India

Sir (Rohena Gera)  India

Kadakh (Rajat Kapoor)  India

Castle of Dreams (Reza Mirkarimi)  Iran

A Dark Dark Man (Adilkhan Yerzhanov)  Kazakhstan

Aga,s House (Lendita Zeqiraj)  Kosovo

Summer Survivors (Marija Kavtaradze)  Lithuania

Isaac (Jurgis Matulevicius)  Lithuania

Boluomi (Vera Chen, Kek Huat Lau)  Malaysia, Taiwan

Brotherhood (Pavel Lungin)  Russia

Move The Grave (Seung-O Jeong)  South Korea

The Hive (Eylem Kaftan)  Turkey

One Man Dies a Million Times (Jessica Oreck)  USA

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IGOR SAVCHENKO, MASTER OF RUSSIAN CINEMA

FILMS  SELECTED :

GARMON (Accordion)
Russia. 1934. 66 min. Musical.
BOGDAN KHMELNITSKI
Russia.1941. 114 min. History.

These films will be shown at Russian cultural centre in Madrid

IGOR  SAVCHENKO  (1906 – 1950)

Igor Andreyevich Savchenko was a writer and director of films, often cited as one of the great early Soviet filmmakers, alongside Sergei Eisenstein , Vsevolod Pudovkin and Aleksandr Dovzhenko. He is also known for teaching the genius Sergei Parajanov at the famous Russian film school VGIK, also attended by Parajanov’s best friend Mikhail Vartanov.

He studied at the Leningrad Institute of Performing Arts. In 1932, he played on the stage and doing performances at the Moscow tram. Since 1931, he served as a film director. In 1934, he staged one of the first Soviet musical comedy “Accordion”, about the life of Komsomol village, where he played the role of a kulak son. The theme of the Civil War in the Ukraine, the heroic past of Ukrainian and Russian peoples formed the sones film “Ballad of Cossack Golota” and the film – the legend “Riders”. He created the monumental folk heroic drama “Bogdan Khmelnitsky” (1941). Struggle of the Ukrainian nation, its freedom-loving tradition of poetic, exciting, colorfully recreated in the film. In 1946 the director returned to his comedic theme, putting one of the first Soviet color feature films “Old vaudeville”. In the picture a special emphasis on the patriotism of the Russian people in the Patriotic War of 1812, and also paid tribute to a popular topic in the postwar year ridiculing the German nation.

Events of the Great Patriotic War devoted to films “Guerrillas in the steppes of Ukraine” (1942) and “Ivan Nikulin – Russian Sailor” (1944). The film “third strike” ( 1948) about the impact of the Third Red Army with battle scenes later criticized as yet another monument to Stalin era. Premature death interrupted the Wizard of historical film “Taras Shevchenko” (1951).  Savchenko – bright, kind of artist, master of monumental paintings – made a great contribution to the development of Soviet cinema. But since the 60s, his films rarely shown at all.

In 1946 the director headed the Institute of Cinematography . Among his students: A. Alov A., B. Naumov, G. S. Gabay, L. Faiziev, F. E. Mironer, Y. N. Ozerov, S. I. Parajanov, M. Khutsiev M., A. Korenev A., A. Zakrevskii, Lev Ivanov, LS Danilov.

Retrospective done with the collaboration of MARLEN KHUTSIYEV.

 

Dariush Mehrjui

DARIUSH MEHRJUI, DIRECTOR OF IRANIAN “NEW WAVE”

FILMS  SELECTED :

ASHBAH (Ghosts)
Iran. 2014. Drama
HAMOUN (The Desert)
Iran. 1990. Drama
SARA
Iran, 1993. Drama
GAAV (The cow)
Iran. 1969. Drama

DARIUSH MEHRJUI  (1939)

Dariush Mehrjui is an Iranian director, screenwriter, producer, and film editor.

Mehrjui was a founding member of the Iranian New Wave movement of the early 1970s.  His second film, Gaav is considered to be the first film of this movement, which also included Masoud Kimiai and Nasser Taqvai. Most of his films are inspired by literature and adapted from Iranian and foreign novels and plays.

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BAUDDHAYAN MUKHERJI, a director of the Renaissance

NABALOK  (The Innocent)

Director :  Bauddhayan Mukherji
India. 2014. 51 min.
Cast :  Ananya Sen , Barshan Seal, Suman Mukhopadhyay

Venues :

Spanish Film Institute
17 may Sunday. 20.00

ECAM
07 may Thursday. 16.00

Spread over 34 years of the Bengali life, Nabalok (The Innocent) the first piece of Teenkahon explores a transgressive facet of a relationship that exceeds the norms of social acceptability.

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I am still. A film by Javier Corcuera

I AM STILL
Javier Corcuera
2013. Peru / Spain. 118 min.

Venue :  Centro Cultural Pilar Miró
26 may Tuesday.  19.30

A film about characters, characters who are part of a country. Although the film talks about music and musicians, it is not strictly a musical but rather a reflection on personal stories apparently very far apart, stories that look for one another in a country also immersed in the struggle to find it,s identity.

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Ek Hazarachi Note (Shrihari Sathe) Being awarded at IFFI, GOA

Ek Hazarachi Note
Shrihari Sathe
Cast:    Usha Naik, Sandeep Pathak, Shrikant Yadav, Ganesh Yadav, Pooja Nayak
India. 2014.90 min. Drama

Venue :  Spanish Film Institute
24 may Sunday.  19.50

During a political rally in a small village in Maharastra, India, Budhi a poor old woman recieves a largess of several 1000 rupees note from a politician. She goes shopping to the nearby market with her neighbor but fate has other plans for them.

 Shrihari Sathe

Shrihari Sathe is a New York and Mumbai based independent filmmaker and producer. Sathe produced Jaron Henrie-McCrea’s Pervertigo which world premiered at the 2012 Warsaw and Mumbai film festivals and was a part of the 2011 IFP Independent Filmmaker Labs. Sathe’s sophomore production It Felt Like Love world premiered at 2013 Sundance Film Festival and 2013 International Film Festival Rotterdam to great reviews. It is available in over 30 countries. Sathe is a 2013 Sundance Institute Creative Producing Fellow and has received fellowships from the HFPA, PGA, IFP, Film Independent, Sundance Institute to name a few.

Sathe attended the 2011 Film Independent Producer’s Lab with Ed Blythe’s Man With Van. He is a Trans Atlantic Partners fellow (2013) and Cannes Producer’s Network fellow (2015). He is a co-producer on Partho Sen-gupta’s Arunoday (Sunrise) which world premiered at the 2014 Busan International Film Festival and Afia Nathanie’s Dukhtar which world premiered at 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. Sathe’s feature directorial debut – Ek Hazarachi Note (1000 Rupee Note) won the Special Jury Award and Centenary Award for Best Film at the 2014 International Film Festival of India and has received several other nominations and awards.

Sathe received his BA in Film and Video Studies (High Honors) and Global Media & Culture from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has a MFA-Film degree from Columbia University.