7th Bengaluru International Film Festival 2014 explained

Bengaluru International Film Festival
Location:Bangalore, Karnataka India
Language:International
Website: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 4 to 11 December.[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.

Here is an extensive listing of the movies screened in BIFFES 2014.

Asian cinema competition

No

Film NameDirectorCountry

1

Asha Jadar Majhe (Labour of Love)Aditya Vikram SenguptaIndia

2

Dreamz - The MovieSumana MukherjeeIndia

3

Swapaanam (The Voiding Soul)Shaji N. KarunIndia

4

Daughter (Dukhtar)Afia NathanielPakistan

5

Ba Digaran (With Others)Nasser ZamiriIran

6

Akash Koto Dure (The Distant Sky)Samia ZamanBangladesh

7

SakkarangDr. Dharmasena PathirajaSri Lanka

8

Prakruti[8] PanchakshariIndia

9

Aithihannu Mattu Kanaja (Fig Fruit And The Wasps)MS Prakash BabuIndia

10

The River of ColoursShahneoyaj CacolyBangladesh

Indian cinema competition

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Film NameDirectorCountryLanguage

1

KranthidharaHimansu Sekhar KhatuaIndiaOriya

2

YellowMahesh LimayeIndiaMarathi

3

Ek Phaali Rodh[9] Atanu GhoshIndiaBengali

4

AdomyaBobby Sarma BaruahIndiaAssamese

5

Pannaiyarum PadminiyumS U Arun KumarIndiaTamil

6

Kuttram Kadithal[10] Bramma GIndiaTamil

7

AlifNK Muhammed KoyaIndiaMalayalam

8

NjaanRanjithIndiaMalayalam

9

Unto the DuskSajin BabuIndiaMalayalam

10

Agasi Parlour(Salon by the fort entrance)[11] Mahantesh RamdurgIndiaKannada

11

MunnariyippuVenuIndiaMalayalam

Kannada competition

Sl. #

Film nameDirectorCountry

1

PrakrutiPanchakshariIndia

2

Agasi ParlourMahantesh RamdurgIndia

3

Harivu[12] Manjunath SIndia

4

Ulidavaru KandantheRakshit ShettyIndia

5

GajakesariS KrishnaIndia

6

HajjNikhil ManjooIndia

7

Ingale MargaVishal RajIndia

8

December - 1P SheshadriIndia

9

Sachin Tendulkar AllaS MohanIndia

10

Brahmashri Narayana Guru Swamy (tulu)Shekhar R KotyanIndia

Cinema of the world

No

Film NameDirectorCountry

1

A Street In PalermoEmma DanteItaly

2

Ariane's ThreadRobert GuediguianFrance

3

Brotherhood of Tears (LA CONFRERIE DES LARMES)Jean-Baptisle AndreaBelgium

4

KidonEmmanuel NaccacheIsrael

5

Meetings with a Young PoetRudy BarichelloCanada

6

Now or Never (Maintenant ou jamais)Serge FrydmanFrance

7

VandalHelier CisterneFrance

8

3X3DJean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway, Edgar PêraPortugal

9

Natural SciencesMatias LucchesiArgentina

10

Stray Dogs (Jiao You)Tsai Ming LiangTaiwan

11

THE EMPTY HOURS (LAS HORAS MUERTAS)Aaron FernandezMexico

12

The OwnersAdilkhan YerzhanovKazakhstan

13

ColetteMILAN CIESLARSlovakia

14

Mrs. Nergis (Nergis Hanim)Gorkem SarkanTurkey

15

Taste of PoetrySavas BaykalTurkey

16

Overture (Uvertur)Alpgiray M. UgurluTurkey

17

Koltuk (The Sofa)Meltem ParlakTurkey

18

Yunus Emre Askin Sesi - Yunus Emre 'The Voice of Love'.Kursat KizbazTurkey

19

Les beaux jours (Bright Days Ahead)Marion VernouxFrance

20

Gare du NordClaire SimonFrance

21

JappeloupChristian DuguayFrance

22

Michael KohlhassArnaud des PallièresFrance

23

Un château en Italie (A Castle in Italy)Valeria Bruni TedeschiFrance

24

VioletteMartin ProvostFrance

25

Monument to Michael JacksonDark LungulovSerbia

26

Patchwork Family (Du goudron et des plumes)Pascale RabateFrance

27

Ping Pong SummerMichael TullyUSA

28

TrappedPARVIZ SHAHBAZIIran

29

Norte, The End of HistoryLav DiazPhilippines

30

Son of TraucoAlan FischerChile

31

Summer (Zomer)Colette BothofNetherlands

32

Unlikely HerosPeter LuisiSwitzerland

33

The FoolYuriy BykovRussian

34

MelbourneNima javidiIran

35

TalesRakhshan Bani-EtemadIran

36

Hadji ShaAli Zamani EsmatiIran

37

Marseille (Marsella)Belen MaciasSpain

38

Behavior (Conducta)Ernesto DaranasCuba

39

RefugiadoDiego LermanArgentina

40

Mr. KaplanÁlvaro BrechnerUruguay

41

The Blue ManUtku CelikTurkey

42

The Longest Distance (LA DISTANCIA MÁS LARGA)Claudia PintoVenezuela

43

Lulu in the Nude (Lulu, femme nue)Sólveig AnspachFrance

44

TIMBUKTUAbderrahmane SissakoMauritania

45

Two Days one NightJean Pierre/Luc DardenneBelgium

46

Jimmy's HallKen LoachUnited Kingdom

47

The SearchMichel HazanaviciusFrance

48

Coming HomeZhang YimouChina

49

Stations of the CrossDietrich BrüggemannGermany

50

In Between WorldsFeo AladagGermany

51

WestChristian SchwochowGermany

52

Ms.SixtySigrid HoernerGermany

53

Two LivesGeorg Maas, Judith KaufmannGermany

54

OmarHany Abu-AssadPalestine

55

ZONE PRO SITECHEN Yu-HsunTaiwan

56

JulietsHOU Chi-Jan, SHEN Ko-Shang, CHEN Yu-HsunTaiwan

57

The LessonKristinagrozeva / Petar ValchanovBulgaria Greece

58

Foreign BodyKrzysztof ZanussiPoland

59

Field of DogsLech MajewskiPoland

60

The Ambassador to Bern (A berni követ)Attila SzászHungary

61

Illitrate (Las analfabetas)Moisés SepúlvedaChile

62

TestAleksandr KottRussia

63

Fly, Dakota, FlySeiji AburataniJapan

64

ReunionRyoichi KimizukaJapan

65

Casting Blossoms to the SkyNobuhiko ObayashiJapan

66

Of Horses and MenBenedikt ErlingssonIceland

Country focus

No

Film NameDirectorCountry

1

BedevilledJang Cheolsu SooSouth Korea

2

Don't ClickKim Tae KyoungSouth Korea

3

HelplessByun Young JoSouth Korea

4

PainedKyung Taek KwakSouth Korea

5

THE CRUCIBLE (SILENCED)Hwang Dong HyeokSouth Korea

6

Madly In Love (Smoor Verliefd)Hilda Van MieghemNetherlands

7

ValentinoRemy Van HeuqtenNetherlands

8

Shocking BlueMark De CloeNetherlands

9

Love Is All (Alles is Liefde)Joram LursenNetherlands

10

Life in One Day (Het leven uit een dag)Mark de CloeNetherlands

11

Tuscan WeddingJohan NijenhuisNetherlands

12

DealEddy TerstallNetherlands

Fipresci

No

Film NameDirectorCountry

1

IdaPawel PawlikowskPoland

2

Bad HairMariano RandonVenezuela

3

Winter SleepNuri Bilge CeylanTurkey

4

The Ballad Of Poor JeanFellipe BarbosaBrazil

5

No One's ChildVuk RsumovicSerbia

6

CalvaryJohn Michael McDonaghIreland

NETPAC

No

Film NameDirectorCountry

1

Fish & Cat (Mahi va gorbeh)Shahram MokriIran

2

Night of SilenceReis ÇelikTurkey

3

Shakespeare Must DieIng KanjanavanitThailand

4

A Cradle For MotherPANAHBARKHODA REZAEEIran

5

13 (Sizdah)Hooman SeyadiIran

6

28Prasanna JayakodySri Lanka

Retrospecitive

No

Film NameDirectorCountry

1

Dead CalmPhillip NoyceAustralia

2

Rabbit - Proof FencePhillip NoyceAustralia

3

NewsfrontPhillip NoyceAustralia

4

BackroadsPhillip NoyceAustralia

5

ConstansKrzysztof ZanussiPoland

6

Persona Non grataKrzysztof ZanussiPoland

7

Life as a fatal STDKrzysztof ZanussiPoland

8

CamouflageKrzysztof ZanussiPoland

9

The IlluminationKrzysztof ZanussiPoland

10

CWALKrzysztof ZanussiPoland

11

SupplementKrzysztof ZanussiPoland

Premier

No

Film NameDirectorCountry

1

Devara NadalliB SureshaIndia

2

Haggada KoneDayal PadmanabhanIndia

Gender violence

No

Film NameDirectorCountry

1

Oblivion (Difret)Zersenay Berhane MehariEthiopia

2

Mission RapeAnnette Mari Olsen & Katia Forbert PetersenDenmark

3

Stoning of SorayaCyrus NowrastehUSA

4

The Paternal HouseKiandoosh AyyariIran

5

OsamaSiddiq BarmakAfghanistan

6

Magdalene SistersPeter MullanIreland

Homage

No

Film NameDirectorCountry

1

BaraMS SatyuIndia

2

Maadi MadidavaruK M ShakarappaIndia

3

KokilaBalu MahendraIndia

4

Life of RileyAlain ResnaisFrance

Special tribute

No

Film NameDirectorCountry

1

U. R. Ananthamurthy

Not a biography, but a hypothesis

Girish KasaravalliIndia

2

SamskaraPattabhirama ReddyIndia

3

GhatashraddhaGirish KasaravalliIndia

4

AvastheKrishna MasadiIndia

5

MouniLingadevaruIndia

Recommended screenings

No

Film NameDirectorCountry

1

Ek Hazarachi NoteShrihari SatheIndia

2

ZahirSidhartha SivaIndia

3

A Rainy DayRajendra TalakIndia

4

Raag - The Rhythm of LoveRajni BasumataryIndia

5

Gour Hari DastanAnanth MahadevanIndia

6

Kariya KanbittaKavitha LankeshIndia

7

ChitramandiradalliVenkatachalaIndia

Centenary remembrance - Honnappa Baghavathar & Hunsur Krishnamurthy

No

Film NameDirectorCountry

1

Jagajyothi BasaveshwaraT V Singh ThakoreIndia

2

Asha SundariHunsur KrishnamurthyIndia

Texts for master classes

No

Film NameDirectorCountry

1

Light of Asia (Prem Sanyas)Franz Osten, Himansu RaiIndia

2

Hatim TaiPrafulla GhoshIndia

3

Shakespeare WallahJames IvoryIndia

4

PyasaGuru DuttIndia

5

MayabazarKadri Venkata ReddyIndia

Grand classics

No

Film NameDirectorCountry

1

Pépé le MokoJulien DuvivierFrance

2

Les enfants du paradis (Children of Paradise)Marcel CarnéFrance

3

Casque d'OrJacques BeckerFrance

4

PickpocketRobert BressonFrance

5

Les yeux sans visage (Eyes without a face)Georges FranjuFrance

6

Jour de Fete (The Big Day)Jacques TatiFrance

Restored cinema

No

Film NameDirectorCountry

1

Kasturi NivasaDorai - BhagwanIndia

2

A Woman of ParisCharlie ChaplinUSA

3

LimelightCharlie ChaplinUSA

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Siddu Promises New Film Policy at Festival Gala . https://web.archive.org/web/20141223183918/http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bengaluru/Siddu-Promises-New-Film-Policy-at-Festival-Gala/2014/12/05/article2555971.ece . dead . 23 December 2014 . New Indian Express . 9 December 2014.
  2. Web site: Bengaluru International Film Festival begins . Udayavani . 8 December 2014.
  3. Web site: BIFFES 2014 Movies List . BIFFES . 7 December 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141214211747/http://biffes.in/english/movie_list . 14 December 2014 .
  4. News: Bangalore film festival launch today . 26 December 2013 . Chennai, India . The Hindu . Muralidhara . Khajane . 26 December 2013.
  5. Web site: Bengaluru Film Festival is Back . https://web.archive.org/web/20141223183921/http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bengaluru/Bengaluru-Film-Festival-is-Back/2014/11/20/article2531743.ece . dead . 23 December 2014 . New Indian Express . 9 December 2014.
  6. Web site: Students Get to Keep Books Aside, Watch Films . https://web.archive.org/web/20141223183906/http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bengaluru/Students-Get-to-Keep-Books-Aside-Watch-Films/2014/12/08/article2560139.ece . dead . 23 December 2014 . New Indian Express . 9 December 2014.
  7. News: A nostalgic trip through the world of single screens . The Hindu . 3 December 2014 . 9 December 2014.
  8. Web site: Debutant Director Shines With Sensitive Period Film . https://web.archive.org/web/20141223183910/http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bengaluru/Debutant-Director-Shines-With-Sensitive-Period-Film/2014/12/04/article2553837.ece . dead . 23 December 2014 . New Indian Express . 9 December 2014.
  9. Web site: 'Ek Phaali Rodh' in Bengaluru International Film Festival competitive section . DNAIndia . 9 December 2014.
  10. Web site: Kuttram Kadithal selected in 7th Bengaluru International Film Festival . truthdive . 9 December 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141204040755/http://truthdive.com/2014/11/19/kuttram-kadithal-selected-in-7th-bengaluru-international-film-festival.html . 2014-12-04 . dead.
  11. Web site: Agasi Parlour Well Received . https://web.archive.org/web/20141223183914/http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bengaluru/Agasi-Parlour-Well-Received/2014/12/09/article2561636.ece . dead . 23 December 2014 . New Indian Express . 9 December 2014.
  12. Web site: The Passage Through Human Mortality . https://web.archive.org/web/20141223185437/http://www.newindianexpress.com/entertainment/kannada/2014/11/27/The-Passage-Through-Human-Mortality/article2542186.ece . dead . 23 December 2014 . New Indian Express . 9 December 2014.