Mumbai Film Festival
13th Mumbai Film Festival, October 13th - 20th, 2011 A Reliance Big Entertainment Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group Initiative
Organized by Mumbai Academy of Moving Image

 

List of Films to be screened at the 12th Mumbai Film Festival  

 

 

Section: International Competition for the First Feature Film of the Directors

International Competition for the First Feature Films of Directors aims at discovering and honoring new talents in the field of direction and providing them a platform for networking with the entertainment industry.

Sr. No.

Title

Director(s)

Country(ies)

  1.  

R

Michael Noer & Tobias Lindholm

Denmark

  1.  

Sweet Evil (L'enfance du mal)

Olivier Coussemacq

France

  1.  

Ayla

Su Turhan

Germany

  1.  

Black Field (Mavro Livadi)

Vardis Marinakis

Greece

  1.  

Autumn (Harud)

Aamir Bashir

India (Urdu)

  1.  

A Stone Thrown Away (A tiro de piedra)

Sebastian Hiriart

Mexico

  1.  

October (Octubre)

Daniel Vega & Diego Vega

Peru-Venezuela-Spain

  1.  

If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle (Eu cand vreau sa fluier, fluier)

Florin Serban

Romania-Sweden

  1.  

Sandcastle

Boo Junfeng

Singapore

  1.  

Estigmas

Adán Aliaga

Spain

  1.  

Sebbe

Babak Najafi

Sweden-Finland

  1.  

Mundane History

Anocha Suwichakornpong

Thailand

  1.  

Majority

Seren Yüce

Turkey

  1.  

Vital Signs (Les Signes Vitaux)

Sophie Deraspe

USA



 
 

Section: Above The Cut

Above the cut will present the first feature films of extra ordinary cinematic merit which could not be included in the competition.

Sr. No.

Title

Director(s)

Country(ies)

  1.  

Puzzle (Rompecabezas)

Natalia Smirnoff

Argentina-France

  1.  

It's Already Summer (C'est déjà l'été)

Martyn Maria Smits

Belgium-Netherlands

  1.  

Le Divan Du Monde

Dominic Desjardins

Canada

  1.  

Hold Me Tight (Hold om mig)

Kaspar Munk

Denmark

  1.  

Camping

Jacob Bitsch

Denmark

  1.  

The Killer Queen (La Tueuse)

Rodolphe Tissot

France

  1.  

8 Times Up (Huit fois debout)

Xabi Molia

France

  1.  

Susa

Rusudan Pirveli

Georgia

  1.  

Faith (Shahada)

Burhan Qurbani

Germany

  1.  

There Are Things You Don’t Know (Chiz-haie hast keh nemidani)

Fardin Saheb-Zamani

Iran

  1.  

The Wanderer (Ha'Meshotet)

Avishai Sivan

Israel

  1.  

Buried Land

Steven Eastwood & Geoffrey Alan Rhodes

UK-USA-Bosnia

  1.  

Night Catches Us

Tanya Hamilton

USA

Don’t Be Afraid, Bi! (Bi, dung so!) Phan Dnag Di Vietnam-France-Germany
 
     
 

Section: World Cinema

The World Cinema section will showcase the best of the crop from around the world during the year. All award winning and critically acclaimed films are invited for this section.

Sr. No.

Title

Director(s)

Country(ies)

  1.  

The Lips (Los Labios)

Iván Fund, Santiago Loza

Argentina

  1.  

The Invisible Eye (La mirada invisible)

Diego Lerman

Argentina-France-Spain

  1.  

Van Diemen’s Land

Jonathan auf der Heide

Australia

  1.  

The White Ribbon

Michael Haneke

Austria-Germany-France-Italy

  1.  

Twice a Woman (2 fois une femme)

François Delisle

Canada

  1.  

The Child Prodigy (L'enfant prodige)

Luc Dionne

Canada

  1.  

Chongqing Blues

Wang Xiaoshuai

China

  1.  

Aftershock

Feng Xiaogang

China

  1.  

Winter Vacation

Li Hongqi

China

  1.  

Retratos En Un Mar De Mentiras

Carlos Gaviria

Colombia

  1.  

Crab Trap (El vuelco del cangrejo)

Oscar Ruíz Navia

Colombia-France

  1.  

Just Between Us (Neka Ostane Medju Nama)

Rajko Grlic

Croatia-Serbia-Slovenia

  1.  

Kawasaki's Rose

Jan Hrebejk

Czech Rep.

  1.  

Mamas & Papas

Alice Nellis

Czech Republic

  1.  

A Family (Une Famille)

Pernille Fischer Christensen

Denmark

  1.  

Submarino

Thomas Vinterberg

Denmark

  1.  

The Experiment (Eksperimentet)

Louise N. D. Friedberg

Denmark

  1.  

Oldboys

Nikolaj Steen

Denmark

  1.  

Headhunter

Rumle Hammerich

Denmark

  1.  

The Snow Queen (Lumekuninganna)

Marko Raat

Estonia

  1.  

Mammuth

Gustave de Kervern & Benoît Delépine

France

  1.  

On Tour (Tournée)

Mathieu Amalric

France

  1.  

Going South (Plein Sud)

Sébastien Lifshitz

France

  1.  

The Queen of Hearts (La Reine des Pommes)

Valérie Donzelli

France

  1.  

Of Gods And Men (Des hommes et des dieux)

Xavier Beauvois

France

  1.  

The Tree

Julie Bertuccelli

France-Australia

  1.  

Domaine

Patric Chiha

France-Austria

  1.  

The Pack (La Meute)

Franck Richard

France-Belgium

  1.  

Outside of the Law (Hors-la-loi)

Rachid Bouchareb

France-Belgium-Algeria

  1.  

A Screaming Man (Un homme qui crie)

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

France-Belgium-Chad

  1.  

Certified Copy (Copie Conforme)

Abbas Kiarostami

France-Italy

  1.  

Lola

Brillante Mendoza

France-Philippines

  1.  

Berlin, Boxhagener Platz

Matti Geschonneck

Germany

  1.  

The Hairdresser (Die Friseuse)

Doris Dörrie

Germany

  1.  

Henry of Navarre (Henri 4)

Jo Baier

Germany-France

  1.  

Womb

Benedek Fliegauf

Germany-Hungary-France

  1.  

The Building Manager (O Diachiristis)

Pericles Hoursoglou

Greece

  1.  

As You Are (Így, ahogy vagytok)

Károly Makk

Hungary

  1.  

Salve (Marham)

Alireza Davoudnejad

Iran

  1.  

The Orion

Zamani Esmati

Iran

  1.  

Kick Off

Shawkat Amin Korki

Iraq-Kurdistan-Japan

  1.  

The Man Who Will Come (L'uomo che verrà)

Giorgio Diritti

Italy

  1.  

Our Life (La Nostra Vita)

Daniele Luchetti

Italy-France

  1.  

Caterpillar

Kôji Wakamatsu

Japan

  1.  

Confession

Tetsuya Nakashima

Japan

  1.  

Sweet Little Lies

Hitoshi Yazaki

Japan

  1.  

Railways

Yoshinari Nishikori

Japan

  1.  

Outrage

Takeshi Kitano

Japan

  1.  

The Tiger Factory

Woo Ming Jin

Malaysia-Japan

  1.  

Bardsongs

Sander Francken

Netherlands

  1.  

Russian Snark

Stephen Sinclair

New Zealand

  1.  

Undertow (Contracorriente)

Javier Fuentes-León

Peru-Colombia

  1.  

The Child Of The Sun (Anacbanua)

Christopher Q. Gozum

Philippines

  1.  

The Strange Case of Angelica

Manoel de Oliveira

Portugal

  1.  

The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceausescu)

Andrei Ujica

Romania

  1.  

How I Ended This Summer (Kak ya provel etim letom)

Alexei Popogrebsky

Russia

  1.  

Black Lamb (черный баран)

Roman Khrushch

Russia

  1.  

Memories Of A Burning Tree (Kumbukumbu za mti uunguao)

Sherman Ong

Singapore

  1.  

Themba - A Boy Called Hope

Stefanie Sycholt

South Africa

  1.  

Poetry

Lee Chang-dong

South Korea

  1.  

Hahaha

Hong Sang-Soo

South Korea

  1.  

Mother Is A Whore

Lee Sang Woo

South Korea

  1.  

Dooman River

Zhang Lu

South Korea-France

  1.  

Bouderbala

Joaquin Cervera & Barbara Belli

Spain

  1.  

The Mosquito Net (La mosquitera)

Agustí Vila

Spain

  1.  

For 80 Days (80 egunean)

Jon Garaño & José Mari Goenaga

Spain

  1.  

Biutiful

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Spain-Mexico

  1.  

Tales from Kars

Özcan Alper (Motoguzzi), Ülkü Oktay (Zilo), Emre Akay (Küçük Bir Hakikat), Ahu Öztürk (Açık Yara), Zehra Derya Koç (Kül)

Turkey

  1.  

Piano Girl (Deli Deli Olma)

Murat Saraçoglu

Turkey

  1.  

Kosmos

Reha Erdem

Turkey-Bulgaria

  1.  

Honey (Bal)

Semih Kaplanoglu

Turkey-Germany

  1.  

Another Year

Mike Leigh

UK

  1.  

Bright Star

Jane Campion

UK-Australia

  1.  

Route Irish

Ken Loach

UK-France

  1.  

Everything Must Go

Dan Rush

USA

  1.  

Bunraku

Guy Moshe

USA

  1.  

I Miss You (Te Extrano)

Fabián Hofman

USA

  1.  

Some Where

Sofia Carmina Coppola

USA

  1.  

The Social Network

David Fincher

USA

  1.  

The Inside Job

Charles Ferguson

USA

  1.  

Howl

Rob Epstein

USA

  1.  

Christina

Larry Brand

USA

  1.  

Winter’s Bone

Debra Granik

USA

  1.  

The Company Men

John Wells

USA

  1.  

The Infidel

Josh Appignanesi

USA

  1.  

The Land Of The Astronauts

Carl Colpaert

USA-India

  1.  

Sammy's Adventure

Ben Stassen

Belgium

  1.  

A Somewhat Gentle Man (En ganska snäll man)

Hans Petter Moland

Norway

 
     
 

Section: The Real Reel

The Reel Real will show case a selection of the best feature length documentary films from around the world which carry strong opinions on issues concerning our social lives, human nature and many other topics.

Sr. No.

Title

Director(s)

Country(ies)

  1.  

My Letter to Pippa (Pippa'ya Mektubum)

Bingol Elmas

Turkey

  1.  

Kick In Iran

Fatima Abdollahyan

Iran

  1.  

Budrus

Julia Bacha

Israel-Occupied Palestinian Territory-USA

  1.  

The Border (Hranica)

Jaroslav Vojtek

Slovakia

  1.  

Once Upon A Time Proletarian: 12 Tales of a Country (Women Cengjing de Wuchanzhe)

Xiaolu Guo

China

  1.  

Think Global, Act Rural

Coline Serreau

France

  1.  

Little Alien

Nina Kusturica

Austria

  1.  

12 Angry Lebanese

Zeina Daccache

Lebanon

  1.  

All My Mothers (Hamey-e Madaran-e Man)

Ebrahim Saeedi & Zahavi Sanjavi

Iraq-Iran

  1.  

We Are Half of Iran’s Population

Rakhshan Bani-Etemad

Iran

  1.  

Park Mark

Baktash Abtin

Iran

  1.  

Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders

Mark N. Hopkins

USA

  1.  

Mugabe And The White African

Andrew Thompson & Lucy Bailey

UK

  1.  

Me And Nuri Bala (Ben ve Nuri Bala)

Melisa Önel

Turkey

  1.  

Open Sky

Ines Compan

France-Argentina

  1.  

Two In The Wave

Emmanuel Leurent

France

  1.  

The Oath

Laura Poitras

USA

  1.  

Last Train Home

Lixin Fan

Canada-China

  1.  

Journey’s End

Jean-François Caissy

Canada

 
     
 

Section: Celebration of Japanese Cinema

“Celebration of Japanese Cinema” a collection of pristine 35MM prints --- classic as well as contemporary --- will be screened providing festival-goers with an unparalleled opportunity to choose from an array of films from one of the most vibrant national cinemas. This extraordinary showcase is being co-organized in collaboration with the Consulate General of Japan in Mumbai and The Japan Foundation.

Sr. No.

Title

Director(s)

  1.  

The Professor and his beloved Equation

Takashi Koizumi

  1.  

United Red Army

Kôji Wakamatsu

  1.  

Te o tsunagu ko ra

Hiroshi Inagaki

  1.  

The Paltry Ronin Forces his way through

Daisuke Ito

  1.  

The Outcast

Kon ichikawa

  1.  

Fight, Zatoichi, Fight

Kenji Misumi

  1.  

The Tycoon

Satsuo Yamamoto

  1.  

Children Hand in Hand

Susumu Hani

  1.  

The naked Island

Kaneto Shindo

  1.  

The Yotsuya Ghost Story on the Tokaido

Nobuo Nakagawa

  1.  

Juvenile Jungle

Yasushi Nakahira

  1.  

Branded to Kill

Seijun Suzuki

  1.  

Sad Vacation

Shinji Aoyama

  1.  

Woman of the mist

Heinosuke Gosho

  1.  

The story of Last Chrysanthemums

Kenji Mizoguchi

  1.  

Warm Current

KozaburoYoshimura

  1.  

The Human Condition I (Part1-2)

Masaki Kobayashi

  1.  

The Human Condition II(Part3-4)

Masaki Kobayashi

  1.  

The Sun's Burial

Nagisa Oshima

  1.  

The Human Condition Ⅲ(part5-6)

Masaki Kobayashi

  1.  

Immortal Love

Keisuke Kinoshita

  1.  

Akitsu Springs

Kiju Yoshida

  1.  

Pale Flower

Masahiro Shinoda

  1.  

The Sting of Death

Kohei Oguri

  1.  

Boiling Point

Takeshi Kitano

  1.  

Face

Junji Sakamoto

  1.  

Departure

Yojiro Takita

  1.  

About Her Brother (Otôto)

Yôji Yamada

  1.  

Sway (Yureru)

Miwa Nishikawa

  1.  

Nobody Knows

Hirokazu Koreeda

  1.  

Crows Zero

Takashi Miike

  1.  

In search of Mother

Tai Kato

  1.  

A Fugitive from the Past

Tomu Uchida

  1.  

Zegen

Shohei Imamura

  1.  

Under the Flag of the Rising Sun

Kinji Fukasaku

  1.  

Humanity and Paper baloon

Sadao Yamanaka

  1.  

Until the Day we meet again

Tadashi Imai

  1.  

When a woman ascends the stairs

Mikio Naruse

  1.  

The End of Summer

Yasujiro Ozu

  1.  

Pastoral Hide and Seek

Shuji Terayama

  1.  

No regrets for our youth

Akira Kurosawa

  1.  

Bright Future

Kiyosh Kurosawa

  1.  

The Friends

Shinji Somai

  Special screening of Ran

(The film will be presented by Akira Kurosawa’s chief assistant director Takashi Koizumi).

Sr. No.

Title

Director(s)

  1.  

Ran

Akira Kurosawa

 
     
 

Section: Indian Frame

The Indian Frame is an effort to display a package of best crop of Indian films produced during one year in all the languages in India and provide them a platform for promotion internationally.

Sr. No.

Title

Director(s)

Country(ies)

  1.  

Virgin Goat

Murali Nair

India

  1.  

Iti Mrinalini

Aparna Sen

India (Bengali)

  1.  

I Am Kalam

Nila Madhab Panda

India (Hindi)

  1.  

Riding The Stallion Of A Dream (Kanasemba Kudureyaneri)

Girish Kasarvalli

India (Kannada)

  1.  

The Way Home (Veettilekkulla Vazhi)

Dr. Biju

India (Malayalam-Hindi)

  1.  

Ayirathil Oruvan

Selvaraghavan

India (Tamil)

  1.  

Memories In March

Sanjay Nag

India

  1.  

Semshook

Siddhartha A. Kumar

India- Spain

  1.  

Whispering Blossom (Nirmaalya)

Shekhar M Sartandel

India-Marathi

  1.  

BBD

 

India

  1.  

Mani Mangalsutra

Gauri Saravate

India-Marathi

 
     
 

Section: New Faces in Indian Cinema

New Faces in Indian Cinema is a non-competitive section which will screen First and Second Feature Films of the Indian directors and aims to provide a platform to young emerging Indian filmmakers.

Sr. No.

Title

Director(s)

Country(ies)

  1.  

Good Morning Good Night

Sudish Kamath

India (English)

  1.  

Tripping on a Bicycle

Nallamuthu

India (English)

  1.  

The Untitled Kartik Krishnan Project

Srinivas Sunderrajan

India (English-Hindi)

  1.  

Burzwagaman - Biography Of A Farmer (Burzwagaman - Shetkaryachi Atmakatha)

Hitendra Upasani

India (Marathi)

  1.  

Athmakadha

Premlal

India

  1.  

Alif

Kamal K.M.

India (Hindi-Marathi-English)

  1.  

Platform

Veena Lokur

India

 
     
 

Section: Film India Worldwide

The Film India Worldwide section will showcase a selection of feature films by Indians living abroad and films on India by foreign filmmakers.

Sr. No.

Title

Director(s)

Country(ies)

  1.  

Florida Road

Brad Glass

South Africa-USA

  1.  

Punyam Aham

Raj Nair

India-Malayalam

  1.  

The Sound Of Mumbai: A Musical

Sarah McCarthy

UK

  1.  

Next year in Bombay

Hitendra Upasani

India (Marathi)

  1.  

When Harry Tries To Marry

Nayan Padrai

USA-India

 
     
 

Section: Celebrate Age

“Celebrate Age” will showcase ad-films, short fiction films, documentaries and feature length films on the concerns, spice, fun and adventure of growing older.

Sr. No.

Title

Director(s)

Country(ies)

1.

Julia's Disappearance (Giulias Verschwinden)

Christoph Schaub

Switzerland

2.

Mama Gogo

Friðrik Þór Friðriksson

Iceland

3.

The Window (La Ventana)

Carlos Sorin

Argentina-Spain

4.

Young@Heart

Stephen Walker, Sally George

UK

5.

Forget Me Not (Ne M'oublie Pas)
(Short Film)

Katia Grivot

France

6.

Quartet (Leçon De Ténèbres)
(Short Film)

sarah arnold

France

7.

Afrique
(Short Film)

Hervé Lavayssière

France

8.

What Lies  Ahead
(Short Film)

Sumiran Preet Kaur, Sheeba Naaz

India

9.

Good Night
(Short Film)

Geetika Narang

India-Hindi

 
     
 

Special Screening

Sr. No.

Title

Director(s)

Country(ies)

1.

Khandar (Restored version)

Mrinal Sen

India

 
     

 

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