Pied Piper
India. 113 min. 2013
Director : VIVEK BUDAKOTI
Cast: Rajpal Yadav, Vikram Kochar, Abhishek Rawat.
Seen through the prism of Bertolt Brecht, the film Pied Piper is a satirical folklore of a simple laundryman, Chunnilal, who is rumored to have acquired his beloved donkey’s brains in a freak accident.
Anubrata Bhalo Achho? / Are you ok Anubrata?
India. 2014. 103 min. Drama.
Director : PARTHA SEN
Cast : Ritwik Chakraborty, Swastika Mukherjee, Debleena Dutta
Venue : Centro Cultural Pilar Miró
21 may Thursday. 19.30
The film mainly delves into the daily routine of the protagonist, Anubrato- a man who has to go through the gradual process of his wife, Neeta’s suffering from cancer.
‘Anubrato- Bhalo Aacho?’ speaks of a solitary world that Anubrato is surrounded by. His fight for his wife’s survival brings him closer to the day to day struggle of life and death.
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Silence and Cry/Csend és kiáltás
Hungary. 73 min. 1968. Drama.
Director: MIKLÓS JANCSÓ
Cast: Mari Töröcsik, József Madaras, Zoltán Latinovits.
Venue : Spanish Film Institute
28 may Thursday. 20.00
Silence and Cry is set after the fall of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919. A young Red soldier, fleeing the anti-Communist manhunt, takes refuge at the isolated farm of a peasant family. His reluctant hosts are already under police scrutiny for being political suspects.
The local White commander is aware of the soldier’s presence but, for personal reasons, keeps it a secret. The soldier discovers that the farmer is being poisoned, slowly, by his wife and her sister. As a personal war is waging within his own consciousness over morality and self-preservation, Istvan must decide whether to remain silent about the women’s devious secret and preserve his own life, or to report their heinous crime to the Royal Gendarme, which would also mean certain death for him.
Fényes Szelek
Hungary. 80 min. 1969. History.
Director: MIKLÓS JANCSÓ
Cast: Andrea Drahota, Kati Kovács, Lajos Balázsovits.
Venue : Spanish Film Institute
29 may Friday. 21.40
This is Jancso’s first film in colour—muted, dusky colour punctuated by the vivid red of a boy’s shirt and of a streaming banner, with its suggestion of Hungarian bloodshed. It tells the story of protest and rebellion in 1947 Hungary where the Communist Party had taken power.
Szegénylegények (The round up)
Hungary. 1966. 90 min. Drama.
Director : MIKLÓS JANCSÓ
Cast : János Görbe, Zoltán Latinovits, Tibor Molnár.
Venue : Spanish Film Institute
23 may Saturday. 19.30
In Hungary, the national movement led by Kossuth has been crushed and the Austrian hegemony re-established, but partisans carry on with violent actions. In order to root out the guerilla, the army rounds up suspects and jails them in an isolated fort. The authorities do not have the identity of the guerilla leaders, who are supposed to be present among the prisoners. However, they know enough about some of the suspects to apply perfidious forms of coercion effectively.
Csillagosok, katonák
Hungary. 1967. 90 min
Director: MIKLÓS JANCSÓ
Cast: József Madaras, Tibor Molnár, András Kozák.
Venue : Spanish Film Institute
26 may Tuesday. 21.40
In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks’ defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side then the other. Captives are executed or sent running naked into the woods. Neither side has a plan, and the characters that the camera picks out soon die.
A White Cossack officer kills a Hungarian and is executed by his own superiors when he tries to rape a milkmaid. At the hospital, White officers order nurses into the woods, dressed in finery, to waltz. A nurse aids the Reds, then they accuse her of treason for following White orders. Red soldiers walk willingly, singing, into an overwhelming force. War seems chaotic and arbitrary.
Baari (The window)
Jatinder Preet
India. 2015. 23 min.
Venue : Intermediae el Matadero
21 may Thursday. 18.00
Spending the whole night awake, pacing back and forth from the room her daughter is sleeping in, she finally arrives at a decision.
As another day comes up she steps out of her home.
Unlike the two men in her life who failed to cope and chose to end their lives, she has chosen life.
Varaad …an unusual wedding
Babar Rais Hashmi
India. 2015. 11 min.
Venue : Centro Cultural Pilar Miró
21 may Thursday. 19.30
Varaad is a story of an unusual wedding, this film gives an insight to customs related to Indian wedding, not only marriage but it also highlights the social stigmas in a developing country.
“Varaad” depicts how prejudice is the driving force behind any decision made by tribal society in rural India, The foreground of this films is rural India and the customs related to marriage in the tribal communities, who speak a unique dialect, the crucial decisions are taken by local governing body i.e the “ Panchayat”, just the way this film has highlighted how the “Panchayat” decides whether a marriage is valid or not depending upon the brides’ virginity, if the bride is found to be a virgin on her first night then the couple can continue their marriage, if not they annul the marriage. The film ends in a very heart touching note where love overpowers all stigmas and prejudice.
Fired
Ju Yong Choi
South Korea. 2014. 26 min
Gang-su Han, the perfect killer who has 100% killing success rate recommended his retire. Because he is too old to do killing someone, and his last order comes. When he confirms his target, he falls into dilemma.
Akar (Troubled waters)
Toufic Khreich
Lebannon. 2013. 25 min
Venue : Función Lenguaje
21 may Thursday. 21.00
Twenty-seven years away, Eskandar comes back. Once in Beirut, he is haunted by his childhood memories, which bounce him between the past and the present. The same experiences that sent him away as a child, lead him back as an adult.
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