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Varaad, an unusual wedding (Babak Hashmi)

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.

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ASHBAH (Ghosts)

Director:  DARIUSH MEHRJUI
Iran, 2014. 95 min.  Drama.
Cast :  Mahtab Keramati, Homayoun Ershadi, Hassan Majooni.
Venue :  Función Lenguaje
28 may Thursday.  21.00
A drunken, boorish general tyrannises his wife and his maid. When the wife discovers that her husband and the maid are having an affair, she turns the maid out of the house, little realising that the young woman is pregnant with the general’s child. Years later, the general is dead, and a younger generation has risen with a new outlook on life and new problems to face… This flamboyantly stylised melodrama, loosely adapted from Ibsen, is the newest work by one of the legendary figures of Iran’s New Wave.
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Fired

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.

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Akar (Toufic Khreich) Stories from Lebannon

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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Binetsu (Masato Ozawa) Life can be cut short

Binetsu (Slight fever)
Masato Ozawa
Japan. 2014. 30 min

Venue :  Spanish Film Institute
28 may Thursday.  20.00

Toshio was a marathon runner with a promising future in college, whose dream was cut short from a training accident. Gambling became Toshio’s new sole purpose in life. Trying to win big to resolve his debts, Toshio obsesses to win while he disregards his wife’s pleading tears to quit.

In this troubled household, Yuu was desperate to keep her family together. With her back to the wall, Yuu maintained herself from breaking apart under her father’s twisted affection and her mother’s unsmiling face. But Yuu was starting to form her own character. All Yuu really wanted to do, was to play the piano…

Gamble addiction and dysfunctional family with implications of child molestation, Slight Fever shines a light on the darkness of modern society of Japan questioning all of us, what is a family? What is true happiness for our children?

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BOGDAN KHMELNITSKI

Director:    Igor Savchenko.
Russia. 1941. 114 min.  Historical.
Cast :  Nikolai Mordvinov, Boris Bezgin, Nikita Ilchenko.

Venue  :   Centro Ruso de Ciencia y Cultura
Date  :    24 may.    18.00 h

Soviet director Igor Savchenko is well regarded in his native land for his lavish historical and war epics including Bogdan Khmelnitsky (1941), the biography of a famed Ukrainian warlord.

Year 1648. Ukraine under the oppression of Poland. Polish nobility committing outrage, burning villages one after another. Hetman of Zaporozhian Cossacks Bogdan Khmelnitsky gathers the army of defenders of the motherland…