7th Bengaluru International Film Festival 2014
| Bengaluru International Film Festival | |
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| Location | Bangalore, Karnataka India |
| Language | International |
| http://biffes.in | |
7th Bengaluru International Film Festival 2014 (BIFFES 2014) was inaugurated by the honorable Chief Minister of Karnataka, Siddaramaiah on 4 December 2014 in Bengaluru.[1][2] The film festival is showcasing 175 films from 45 countries in 11 screens across the City from December 4 to 11.[3][4][5]
Participation
Bengaluru International film festival attracts people of all ages, Film industry people, students. Many of the colleges encouraged their students to participate or volunteer for the festival.Jain University, NMKRV College, St Joseph's College, Central College, National School of Drama's Bengaluru chapter are some of the institutes which actively participated in the festival with their mass communication students.[6]
Photo Exhibition
The seventh edition of Bengaluru International Film Festival (BIFFes), in association with Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, had organized a photo exhibition called Hybrid Modernisation - Movie Theatres in South India by Sabine Haubitz and Stefanie Zoche to provides a view of the surviving single screens in south India.[7]
The exhibition talks about the current status of single-screen theaters in the south indian region which includes the states Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh between 2010 and 2013.[7]
Here is an extensive listing of the movies screened in BIFFES 2014.
Asian cinima competition
| No |
Film Name | Director | Country |
| 1 |
Asha Jadar Majhe (Labour of Love) | Aditya Vikram Sengupta | India |
| 2 |
Dreamz - The Movie | Sumana Mukherjee | India |
| 3 |
Swapaanam (The Voiding Soul) | Shaji N. Karun | India |
| 4 |
Daughter (Dukhtar) | Afia Nathaniel | Pakistan |
| 5 |
Ba Digaran (With Others) | Nasser Zamiri | Iran |
| 6 |
Akash Koto Dure (The Distant Sky) | Samia Zaman | Bangladesh |
| 7 |
Sakkarang | Dr. Dharmasena Pathiraja | Sri Lanka |
| 8 |
Prakruti[8] | Panchakshari | India |
| 9 |
Aithihannu Mattu Kanaja (Fig Fruit And The Wasps) | MS Prakash Babu | India |
| 10 |
The River of Colours | Shahneoyaj Cacoly | Bangladesh |
Indian cinema competition
| Sl.# |
Film Name | Director | Country | Language |
| 1 |
Kranthidhara | Himansu Sekhar Khatua | India | Oriya |
| 2 |
Yellow | Mahesh Limaye | India | Marathi |
| 3 |
Ek Phaali Rodh[9] | Atanu Ghosh | India | Bengali |
| 4 |
Adomya | Bobby Sarma Baruah | India | Assamese |
| 5 |
Pannaiyarum Padminiyum | S U Arun Kumar | India | Tamil |
| 6 |
Kuttram Kadithal[10] | Bramma G | India | Tamil |
| 7 |
Alif | NK Muhammed Koya | India | Malayalam |
| 8 |
Njaan | Ranjith | India | Malayalam |
| 9 |
Unto the Dusk | Sajin Babu | India | Malayalam |
| 10 |
Agasi Parlour(Salon by the fort entrance)[11] | Mahantesh Ramdurg | India | Kannada |
| 11 |
Munnariyippu | Venu | India | Malayalam |
Kannada competition
| Sl. # |
Film name | Director | Country |
| 1 |
Prakruti[8] | Panchakshari | India |
| 2 |
Agasi Parlour | Mahantesh Ramdurg | India |
| 3 |
Harivu[12] | Manjunath S | India |
| 4 |
Ulidavaru Kandanthe | Rakshit Shetty | India |
| 5 |
Gajakesari | S Krishna | India |
| 6 |
Hajj | Nikhil Manjoo | India |
| 7 |
Ingale Marga | Vishal Raj | India |
| 8 |
December - 1 | P Sheshadri | India |
| 9 |
Sachin Tendulkar Alla | S Mohan | India |
| 10 |
Brahmashri Narayana Guru Swamy (tulu) | Shekhar R Kotyan | India |
Ciname of the world
| No |
Film Name | Director | Country |
| 1 |
A Street In Palermo | Emma Dante | Italy |
| 2 |
Ariane's Thread | Robert Guediguian | France |
| 3 |
Brotherhood of Tears (LA CONFRERIE DES LARMES) | Jean-Baptisle Andrea | Belgium |
| 4 |
Kidon | Emmanuel Naccache | Israel |
| 5 |
Meetings With Young Poet | Rudy Barichello | Canada |
| 6 |
Now or Never (Maintenant ou jamais) | Serge Frydman | France |
| 7 |
Vandal | Helier Cisterne | France |
| 8 |
3X3D | Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway, Edgar Pêra | Portugal |
| 9 |
Natural Sciences | Matias Lucchesi | Argentina |
| 10 |
Stray Dogs (Jiao You) | Tsai Ming Liang | Taiwan |
| 11 |
THE EMPTY HOURS (LAS HORAS MUERTAS) | Aaron Fernandez | Mexico |
| 12 |
The Owners | Adilkhan Yerzhanov | Kazakhstan |
| 13 |
Colette | MILAN CIESLAR | Slovakia |
| 14 |
Mrs. Nergis (Nergis Hanim) | Gorkem Sarkan | Turkey |
| 15 |
Taste of Poetry | Savas Baykal | Turkey |
| 16 |
Overture (Uvertur) | Alpgiray M. Ugurlu | Turkey |
| 17 |
Koltuk (The Sofa) | Meltem Parlak | Turkey |
| 18 |
Yunus Emre Askin Sesi - Yunus Emre 'The Voice of Love'. | Kursat Kizbaz | Turkey |
| 19 |
Les beaux jours (Bright Days Ahead) | Marion Vernoux | France |
| 20 |
Gare du Nord | Claire Simon | France |
| 21 |
Jappeloup | Christian Duguay | France |
| 22 |
Michael Kohlhass | Arnaud des Pallières | France |
| 23 |
Un château en Italie (A Castle in Italy) | Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | France |
| 24 |
Violette | Martin Provost | France |
| 25 |
Monument to Michael Jackson | Dark Lungulov | Serbia |
| 26 |
Patchwork Family (Du goudron et des plumes) | Pascale Rabate | France |
| 27 |
Ping Pong Summer | Michael Tully | USA |
| 28 |
Trapped | PARVIZ SHAHBAZI | Iran |
| 29 |
Norte, The End of History | Lav Diaz | Philippines |
| 30 |
Son of Trauco | Alan Fischer | Chile |
| 31 |
Summer (Zomer) | Colette Bothof | Netherlands |
| 32 |
Unlikely Heros | Peter Luisi | Switzerland |
| 33 |
The Fool | Yuriy Bykov | Russian |
| 34 |
Melbourne | Nima javidi | Iran |
| 35 |
Tales | Rakhshan Bani-Etemad | Iran |
| 36 |
Hadji Sha | Ali Zamani Esmati | Iran |
| 37 |
Marseille (Marsella) | Belen Macias | Spain |
| 38 |
Behavior (Conducta) | Ernesto Daranas | Cuba |
| 39 |
Refugiado | Diego Lerman | Argentina |
| 40 |
Mr. Kaplan | Álvaro Brechner | Uruguay |
| 41 |
The Blue Man | Utku Celik | Turkey |
| 42 |
The Longest Distance (LA DISTANCIA MÁS LARGA) | Claudia Pinto | Venezuela |
| 43 |
Lulu in the Nude ( Lulu, femme nue) | Sólveig Anspach | France |
| 44 |
TIMBUKTU | Abderrahmane Sissako | Mauritania |
| 45 |
Two Days one Night | Jean Pierre/Luc Dardenne | Belgium |
| 46 |
Jimmy’s Hall | Ken Loach | United Kingdom |
| 47 |
The Search | Michel Hazanavicius | France |
| 48 |
Coming Home | Zhang Yimou | China |
| 49 |
Stations of the Cross | Dietrich Brüggemann | Germany |
| 50 |
In Between Worlds | Feo Aladag | Germany |
| 51 |
West | Christian Schwochow | Germany |
| 52 |
Ms.Sixty | Sigrid Hoerner | Germany |
| 53 |
Two Lives | Georg Maas, Judith Kaufmann | Germany |
| 54 |
Omar | Hany Abu-Assad | Palestine |
| 55 |
ZONE PRO SITE | CHEN Yu-Hsun | Taiwan |
| 56 |
Juliets | HOU Chi-Jan, SHEN Ko-Shang, CHEN Yu-Hsun | Taiwan |
| 57 |
The Lesson | Kristinagrozeva / Petar Valchanov | Bulgaria | Greece |
| 58 |
Foreign Body | Krzysztof Zanussi | Poland |
| 59 |
Field of Dogs | Lech Majewski | Poland |
| 60 |
The Ambassador to Bern (A berni követ) | Attila Szász | Hungary |
| 61 |
Illitrate (Las analfabetas) | Moisés Sepúlveda | Chile |
| 62 |
Test | Aleksandr Kott | Russia |
| 63 |
Fly, Dakota, Fly | Seiji Aburatani | Japan |
| 64 |
Reunion | Ryoichi Kimizuka | Japan |
| 65 |
Casting Blossoms to the Sky | Nobuhiko Obayashi | Japan |
| 66 |
Of Horses and Men | Benedikt Erlingsson | Iceland |
Country focus
| No |
Film Name | Director | Country |
| 1 |
Bedevilled | Jang Cheolsu Soo | South Korea |
| 2 |
Don't Click | Kim Tae Kyoung | South Korea |
| 3 |
Helpless | Byun Young Jo | South Korea |
| 4 |
Pained | Kyung Taek Kwak | South Korea |
| 5 |
THE CRUCIBLE (SILENCED) | Hwang Dong Hyeok | South Korea |
| 6 |
Madly In Love (Smoor Verliefd) | Hilda Van Mieghem | Netherlands |
| 7 |
Valentino | Remy Van Heuqten | Netherlands |
| 8 |
Shocking Blue | Mark De Cloe | Netherlands |
| 9 |
Love Is All (Alles is Liefde) | Joram Lursen | Netherlands |
| 10 |
Life in One Day ( Het leven uit een dag ) | Mark de Cloe | Netherlands |
| 11 |
Tuscan Wedding | Johan Nijenhuis | Netherlands |
| 12 |
Deal | Eddy Terstall | Netherlands |
Fipresci
| No |
Film Name | Director | Country |
| 1 |
Ida | Pawel Pawlikowsk | Poland |
| 2 |
Bad Hair | Mariano Randon | Venezuela |
| 3 |
Winter Sleep | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Turkey |
| 4 |
The Ballad Of Poor Jean | Fellipe Barbosa | Brazil |
| 5 |
No One's Child | Vuk Rsumovic | Serbia |
| 6 |
Calvary | John Michael McDonagh | Ireland |
NETPAC
| No |
Film Name | Director | Country |
| 1 |
Fish & Cat (Mahi va gorbeh) | Shahram Mokri | Iran |
| 2 |
Night of Silence | Reis Çelik | Turkey |
| 3 |
Shakespeare Must Die | Ing Kanjanavanit | Thailand |
| 4 |
A Cradle For Mother | PANAHBARKHODA REZAEE | Iran |
| 5 |
13 (Sizdah) | Hooman Seyadi | Iran |
| 6 |
28 | Prasanna Jayakody | Sri Lanka |
Retrospecitive
| No |
Film Name | Director | Country |
| 1 |
Dead Calm | Phillip Noyce | Australia |
| 2 |
Rabbit - Proof Fence | Phillip Noyce | Australia |
| 3 |
Newsfront | Phillip Noyce | Australia |
| 4 |
Backroads | Phillip Noyce | Australia |
| 5 |
Constans | Krzysztof Zanussi | Poland |
| 6 |
Persona Non grata | Krzysztof Zanussi | Poland |
| 7 |
Life as a fatal STD | Krzysztof Zanussi | Poland |
| 8 |
Camouflage | Krzysztof Zanussi | Poland |
| 9 |
The Illumination | Krzysztof Zanussi | Poland |
| 10 |
CWAL | Krzysztof Zanussi | Poland |
| 11 |
Supplement | Krzysztof Zanussi | Poland |
Premier
| No |
Film Name | Director | Country |
| 1 |
Devara Nadalli | B Suresha | India |
| 2 |
Haggada Kone | Dayal Padmanabhan | India |
Gender violence
| No |
Film Name | Director | Country |
| 1 |
Oblivion ( Difret) | Zersenay Berhane Mehari | Ethiopia |
| 2 |
Mission Rape | Annette Mari Olsen & Katia Forbert Petersen | Denmark |
| 3 |
Stoning of Soraya | Cyrus Nowrasteh | USA |
| 4 |
The Paternal House | Kiandoosh Ayyari | Iran |
| 5 |
Osama | Siddiq Barmak | Afghanistan |
| 6 |
Magdalene Sisters | Peter Mullan | Ireland |
Homage
| No |
Film Name | Director | Country |
| 1 |
Bara | MS Satyu | India |
| 2 |
Maadi Madidavaru | K M Shakarappa | India |
| 3 |
Kokila | Balu Mahendra | India |
| 4 |
Life of Riley | Alain Resnais | France |
Special tribute
| No |
Film Name | Director | Country |
| 1 |
U.R. Ananthamurthy: Not a biography, but a hypothesis | Girish Kasaravalli | India |
| 2 |
Samskara | Pattabhirama Reddy | India |
| 3 |
Ghatashraddha | Girish Kasaravalli | India |
| 4 |
Avasthe | Krishna Masadi | India |
| 5 |
Mouni | Lingadevaru | India |
Recommended screenings
| No |
Film Name | Director | Country |
| 1 |
Ek Hazarachi Note | Shrihari Sathe | India |
| 2 |
Zahir | Sidhartha Siva | India |
| 3 |
A Rainy Day | Rajendra Talak | India |
| 4 |
Raag - The Rhythm of Love | Rajni Basumatary | India |
| 5 |
Gour Hari Dastan | Ananth Mahadevan | India |
| 6 |
Kariya Kanbitta | Kavitha Lankesh | India |
| 7 |
Chitramandiradalli | Venkatachala | India |
Centenary remembrance - Honnappa Baghavathar & Hunsur Krishnamurthy
| No |
Film Name | Director | Country |
| 1 |
Jagajyothi Basaveshwara | T V Singh Thakore | India |
| 2 |
Asha Sundari | Hunsur Krishnamurthy | India |
Texts for master classes
| No |
Film Name | Director | Country |
| 1 |
Light of Asia (Prem Sanyas) | Franz Osten, Himansu Rai | India |
| 2 |
Hatim Tai | Prafulla Ghosh | India |
| 3 |
Shakespeare Wallah | James Ivory | India |
| 4 |
Pyasa | Guru Dutt | India |
| 5 |
Mayabazar | Kadri Venkata Reddy | India |
Grand classics
| No |
Film Name | Director | Country |
| 1 |
Pépé le Moko | Julien Duvivier | France |
| 2 |
Les enfants du paradis (Children of Paradise) | Marcel Carné | France |
| 3 |
Casque d'Or | Jacques Becker | France |
| 4 |
Pickpocket | Robert Bresson | France |
| 5 |
Les yeux sans visage (Eyes without a face) | Georges Franju | France |
| 6 |
Jour de Fete (The Big Day) | Jacques Tati | France |
Restored cinema
| No |
Film Name | Director | Country |
| 1 |
Kasturi Nivasa | Dorai - Bhagwan | India |
| 2 |
A Woman of Paris | Charlie Chaplin | USA |
| 3 |
Limelight | Charlie Chaplin | USA |
References
- ↑ "Siddu Promises New Film Policy at Festival Gala". New Indian Express. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
- ↑ "Bengaluru International Film Festival begins". Udayavani. Retrieved 8 December 2014.
- ↑ "BIFFES 2014 Movies List". BIFFES. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
- ↑ Khajane, Muralidhara (26 December 2013). "Bangalore film festival launch today". The Hindu (Chennai, India). Retrieved 26 December 2013.
- ↑ "Bengaluru Film Festival is Back". New Indian Express. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
- ↑ "Students Get to Keep Books Aside, Watch Films". New Indian Express. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "A nostalgic trip through the world of single screens". The Hindu. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Debutant Director Shines With Sensitive Period Film". New Indian Express. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
- ↑ "'Ek Phaali Rodh' in Bengaluru International Film Festival competitive section". DNAIndia. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
- ↑ "Kuttram Kadithal selected in 7th Bengaluru International Film Festival". truthdive. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
- ↑ "Agasi Parlour Well Received". New Indian Express. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
- ↑ "The Passage Through Human Mortality". New Indian Express. Retrieved 9 December 2014.