29th WFF
films seen on 29th Warsaw Film Festival 11-20.X.2013
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- DirectorIgnas JonynasStarsVytautas KaniusonisOona MekasRimas BlockisParamedic Vincentas is a passionate gambler, who is forced to make radical decisions to return the debts. An idea strikes Vincentas to create an illegal game related to his profession. Love, life and death will be at stake.11.X.2013; 11:00; IC (international Competition);+;;N2;IC Yury Special Award;
- DirectorMichele GentileMarcus VetterStarsLuis Moreno OcampoFatou BensoudaAdrian FulfordShot in the style of a legal thriller, the documentary "The International Criminal Court" relates how the first internationally legitimated criminal court was founded in 2002, and how it investigates appalling crimes committed by some of the world's most ruthless war criminals.11.X.2013; 14:00; DOC (Documentary);+;;N2;;
- DirectorChe SandovalStarsSebastián BrahmAntonella CostaNicolás AlalufIn an urban comedy, Cristobal (40), a father and businessman, sees how his wife is awarded a scholarship and moves to Spain, wanting to take him and their children along with her. Humiliated by this, he disappears and wanders throughout Santiago looking for sex. After a pathetic night filled with failures, during which he is unable to forget his conflict, the time to chose shall come: either his family or his ego...11.X.2013; 16:00; FS (Free Spirit);+;;N2;FS Yury Award;
- DirectorJason Paul LaxamanaStarsAlex MedinaJoey ParasAlma ConcepcionGreg is past his heyday as a bodybuilder and now faces problems with his quarreling parents and overbearing girlfriend. He turns to conning people for money using a made-up Facebook account as part of an elaborate scheme devised by his manager Marney. Their operation gets compromised when Greg falls in love with their latest victim Daisy, an older single woman. This is a story of deceptive people and how they feed on other people's needs for love, sex and money.11.X.2013; 18:45; 1-2 [1st 2nd movie];+;director;N2;;
- DirectorMichael L. SuanStarsTyce FrancoisRoxanne PrenticeKelly FedonniA Yakuza hitman travels to North America for his 27th job, only to find lingering memories of lost love through a chance encounter with a beautiful prostitute.11.X.2013; 21:00; FS;+;director;N2;;
- DirectorEmir BaigazinStarsTimur AidarbekovAslan AnarbayevMukhtar AndassovLonely Kazakh teenager Aslan is bullied at his new school. He prepares himself for a bloody revenge on the school bully Bolat.12.X.2013; 9:30; ODK (Discoveries);+;;N2;NETPAC Award;
- DirectorIlmar RaagStarsUrsula RataseppMait MalmstenLeila SäälikKertu s life is totally spoiled by an overbearing father, until she opens her heart to an unlikely dream lover.12.X.2013; 11:00; IC;+;;N2;;-late
- DirectorHany Abu-AssadStarsAdam BakriLeem LubanyEyad HouraniA young Palestinian freedom fighter agrees to work as an informant after he's tricked into an admission of guilt by association in the wake of an Israeli soldier's killing.12.X.2013; 13:30; X (World Today);+;;N2;;
- DirectorVivian QuStarsYulai LüWenchao HeYong HouIn a southern city of China, a digital mapping surveyor encounters a mysterious woman on an unmappable street.12.X.2013; 16:00; IC;+;producer;N2;;
- DirectorYuriy BykovStarsDenis ShvedovYuriy BykovIrina NizinaIn a car accident, a policeman accidentally killed a child. The other cops are trying to hush up the case.12.X.2013; 18:30; PS (Special Screening);+;;N2;;
- DirectorDmitriy TyurinStarsMikhail GrubovSergey LavyginNikita OstrikovYoung Chechnya war veteran alienates himself from his friends and family because of his burned face. When he has to help find his war-time friend, he manages to get back to life again.12.X.2013; 21:00; IC;+;;N2;;
- DirectorUgur YücelStarsAhmet Rifat SungarValeriya SkorokhodovaJulia VaniukovaThree Russian sisters work in a tavern in Kars, a city in the east of Turkiye. Two brothers who live in the same city go to that tavern. Elder of the brothers who is married works as a railway worker; controls rails and allows/stoppes trains to pass.13.X.2013; 9:30; ODK;+;;N2;;
- DirectorSebastián SilvaStarsMichael CeraGaby HoffmannJuan Andrés SilvaAs Jamie travels in Chile, he invites an eccentric woman to join his group's quest to score a fabled hallucinogen, a move that finds him at odds with his new companion, until they drink the magic brew on a beach at the edge of the desert.13.X.2013; 11:30; ODK;+;;N2;;
- DirectorAmir ToodehroostaStarsSaed SoheiliMostafa SasaniSonia SanjariIn a city where owning a dog is illegal, a man facing marital problems takes care of a German shepherd named Paat. When the man is brutally murdered by his wife, Paat runs away, setting off for the big city.13.X.2013; 13:30; IC;+;;N2;;
- DirectorDerek AndersonVictor KubicekStarsVictor KubicekAndrew MadoffBernie MadoffEleanor Squillari went to work every day believing she was working for a great company, a great man. For twenty-five years she sat 15 feet from Bernard L. Madoff as his personal secretary. She never imagined that he was perpetrating the largest financial crime in history. On December 11th, 2008, her life as she knew it was destroyed...until she decided to do something about it.13.X.2013; 16:30; XX (World Today DOX);+;;N2;;
- DirectorAharon KeshalesNavot PapushadoStarsLior AshkenaziRotem KeinanTzahi GradAfter a little girl is brutally murdered, a suspect avoids arrest due to lack of evidence. Working separately, her father and a cop decide to do something about it.13.X.2013; 18:30; ODK;+;;N2;;marvelous opening scene
- DirectorIvars TontegodeStarsMareks BalmanisDace EversaBruno HenryPeter is the most ordinary person. He lives with his controlling mother and spends his days at the office, where he is the butt of his colleagues' jokes. All goes well till his sexually aggressive female boss decides to take him to Africa. And then his pretty colleague from the next office starts flirting with him, as well. Tired of all this female attention, Peter and his buddies sneak into an army base to pick psychedelic mushrooms. So begins the trip that will change Peter's whole life.13.X.2013; 21:00; FS;+;;N2;;
- DirectorYoav ShamirStarsYoav ShamirPhilip ZimbardoAward-winning director Yoav Shamir (Defamation, Checkpoint) sets out on an entertaining and insightful international quest, exploring the notion of heroism through a multi-faceted lens. From ordinary heroes to freedom fighters, primates to humans, behavioral scientists to geneticists, even Ayn Rand to Raelians, Shamir leaves no stone unturned, and along the way unveils the fundamental truths of human nature.14.X.2013; 11:00; DOC;+;;N2;;
- DirectorPawel ZiemilskiA short visual journey through various households shows just how lively, unique and atmospheric these places can be.14.X.2013; 14:00; PSH (Polish Shorts);+;;N2;;
- DirectorIzabela PlucinskaStarsKathrin AngererTheo Vadersen14.X.2013; 14:00; PSH;+;;N2;;
- DirectorJakub PolakowskiStarsMalgorzata BaczynskaSlawomir BlaszewskiMariusz Brzozowski14.X.2013; 14:00; PSH;+;;N2;;
- DirectorKristoffer RusStarsArkadiusz JakubikTilly Scott PedersenGustaf SkarsgårdThree people meet at the top of a skyscraper. They have the same intention - to commit suicide due to a major financial crisis. The conflict quickly deepens when they discover that they all represent a different conviction about the hereafter: Sarah is the believer, John the atheist and Ben uncertain agnostic. The only way to find out who's right is to take The Big Leap.14.X.2013; 14:00; PSH;+;director;N2;;
- DirectorMalgorzata Rzanek14.X.2013; 14:00; PSH;+;director;N2;;
- DirectorLukasz OstalskiStarsDanuta StenkaMagdalena CzerwinskaRafal FudalejMalgorzata - an important politician - is going to her home at the lake. Her son - a drug addict - needs her help. Malgorzata is asking her daughter for her support. At home they find Malgorzata's semiconscious son and a massacred body of a young girl. In the face of the tragedy, their relationship gets complicated, disclosing their hidden grudges. The mother has to make the most difficult decision in her life.14.X.2013; 14:00; PSH;+;director;N2;;
- DirectorRick RowleyStarsJeremy ScahillNasser Al AulaqiSaleha Al AulaqiInvestigative journalist Jeremy Scahill is pulled into an unexpected journey as he chases down the hidden truth behind America's expanding covert wars.14.X.2013; 16:30; DOC;+;;N2; Doc Yury Award;
- DirectorBasil da CunhaStarsAna Clara Baptista de Melo Soares BarrosSusana Maria Mendes da CostaJosé Zeferino da CruzStraight out of jail, Sombra returns to his life as a drug dealer in the creole slum of Lisbon. In between the money he has lent and can't get back, the money he owes, a fanciful iguana, an invasive little girl and a ringleader who begins to mistrust him, he starts to think that he might have been better off in the clink...14.X.2013; 18:30; X;+;;N2;;
- DirectorShawn EfranAdam CiralskyAn action-packed film on the secret Western mission to create a private Somali band of pirate hunters14.X.2013; 21:30; XX;+;;N2;;
- DirectorMira FornayStarsIrena BendováPatrik CzanikLadislav DirdaIn the absence of a true family, a young skinhead lets his life revolve around his cherished pit bull dog.15.X.2013; 9:30; ODK;+;director;N2;;
- DirectorDiego Quemada-DiezStarsBrandon LópezRodolfo DomínguezKaren MartínezA road movie about teenage immigrants and their journey to the U.S.15.X.2013; 11:30; ODK;+;;N2;;
- DirectorFabrice GrangeStarsJulie WingensStéphane PrévostSophie FougèreAlice is 30 years old and lives a simple, uncomplicated life. She is happy, or at least thinks she is. This illusion comes crashing down when she meets Jean by chance and her existence is forever changed. In his 40s, Jean is a father and husband, but spends most of his time either working as a translator in a small office or with friends. He is unaware that his encounter with Alice will put into question his entire existence.15.X.2013; 13:45; 1-2;+;;N2;;
- DirectorErik MattiStarsPiolo PascualGerald AndersonJoel TorreInspired by a real-life scandal in which prison inmates are temporarily released from prison to work as contract killers on behalf of politicians and high ranking military officials.15.X.2013; 16:30; PS;+;;N2;;
- DirectorCüneyt KayaStarsTamer ArslanClaudia EisingerKatharina HeyerAfter killing two skinheads in a failed operation against NeoNazis, young undercover intelligence agent Daniel finds a hiding place and new friends in Berlins Turkish Arab community. Realistic and witty, Berlin filmmaker Cueneyt Kaya shows the rapprochement of two worlds which seem violently opposed. 'I always wanted to tell a story set in the Islamic culture in Germany from a realistic, critical and humorous perspective. Too often stories about Muslims and migrants are reduced to Taliban, headscarves, youth violence, and several other stereotypes. The world I grew up in, however, is entirely different. Its determined by family ties, caring for each other and the struggle you face if you want to maintain your identity as a Muslim of Turkish origin in Western society.' (Cueneyt Kaya)15.X.2013; 18:45; 1-2;+;director,producer,operator;N2;;
- DirectorPawel PawlikowskiStarsAgata KuleszaAgata TrzebuchowskaDawid OgrodnikA novice nun about to take her vows uncovers a family secret dating back to the German occupation.15.X.2013; 21:00; IC;+;director,actress,operator;N2;Ecummenical Yury Award,Warsaw Grand Prix;
- DirectorZehao GaoJingwei ZhangStarsJack KaoHsiao-Kuo ChiaShanshan ChunyuSong borrows a sum of money from Ping to run a noodle restaurant with his family. To take over Song's restaurant, Ping raises the interest which is impossible for Song to pay back. Just on the edge of desperation, Song witnesses a hit-and-run traffic accident. By finding out the person to blame, fortune seems to reverse in his favor, until his life gets irreversibly out of control and Song has to face the cruel facts that came upon him.16.X.2013; 9:30; ODK;+;;N2;;
- DirectorDan KraussStarsAdam WinfieldChristopher WinfieldEmma WinfieldThis provocative, bold, and deeply moving documentary profiles Adam Winfield, a soldier-turned-whistleblower who returns from the battlefield to expose shocking war crimes that the U.S. Army will do anything to cover up.16.X.2013; 11:00; DOC;+;;N2;;
- DirectorHiroshi ShimizuStarsYûta HiraokaTakahiro MiuraBengalSet 10 years after "Kids Return." Shinji and Masaru have graduated from high school with different paths in their lives. Shinji attempted to become boxer and Masaru a yakuza. They both tried to rise to the top of their respective fields.16.X.2013; 13:30; IC;+;director;N2;;
- DirectorZaza UrushadzeStarsLembit UlfsakElmo NüganenGiorgi NakashidzeIn 1992, war rages in Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia. An Estonian man, Ivo, has decided to stay behind and harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo takes him in.16.X.2013; 16:00;IC;+;;N2;Viewers Award, Best Director Award; went to Q&A 19.X. 15:30
- DirectorPirjo HonkasaloStarsJohannes BrotherusJari VirmanAnneli KarppinenA fourteen-year-old boy in a stifling Helsinki slum takes some unwise life lessons from his soon-to-be-incarcerated older brother.16.X.2013; 18:30;IC;+;director,producer,actors;N2;;
- DirectorZhengfan YangDISTANT is a film that is made up of 13 sections, each comprised of a single long take. Each section tells a story about distance between different time and space, focusing on the subtle moments when people are suddenly confronted with modernity and gradually become lost in the transition between this and their present lives. Without any dialogue, simply working with image, sound and actions of the characters, these 13 dramatic, realistic and mysterious scenes are painted. It tries to describe today's human condition in an abstract way - its alienation, abandonment and eternal loneliness.16.X.2013; 21:00; FS;+;;N2;;
- DirectorIulia RuginaStarsAnkah BelloDorian BogutaDragos BucurLove Building is a camp designed to mend broken relationships. 14 couples in the program have 7 days to re-design their love lives. But the 3 trainers meant to assist them have problems of their own and things gradually get out of hand.17.X.2013; 9:30; ODK;+;director;N2;;
- DirectorAlejandro MontielStarsJoaquín FurrielMaricel ÁlvarezAlejandro UrdapilletaWe all want to have a family. He is the only one willing to kill to get one.17.X.2013; 11:00;IC;+;director,actor,producer;N2;;
- DirectorJaap van HeusdenStarsBianca KrijgsmanIssaka SawadogoTeun StokkelA chance meeting between a Dutch cleaner and an African asylum seeker leads to an unexpected relationship and two extraordinary weeks.17.X.2013; 13:30; X;+;;N2;;
- DirectorLendita ZeqirajStarsOsman AhmetiArben BajraktarajMejreme BerishaJeton, a 10-year-old boy is sitting on the edge of a balcony on the 4th floor. Neighbors and passers-by, terrified by this situation, call the police and firefighters for help. But the situation quickly becomes unmanageable.17.X.2013; 16:00; SHD;+;director,producer;N2;;
- DirectorPeter BeganyiAndrej KolencikStarsJan BudarDana KosickaMiro KristofcakThe film tells about a small museum, where the economic boom has not yet arrived. It appears as if time has stopped in this national museum, a museum which should serve as a show window for Slovakia. Stuffed animals are covered with dust and the three employees working as caretakers of the huge building look like the museum exhibits themselves.17.X.2013; 16:00; SHD;+;;N2;;
- DirectorShane AtkinsonStarsOona LaurenceDavid H. StevensMarnie SchulenburgA novice crook gets involved in a ransom plot, but winds up kidnapping the wrong girl.17.X.2013; 16:00; SHD;+;;N2;;
- DirectorTal GranitSharon MaymonStarsYiftach KleinOded LeopoldHilla VidorSea, sun, island, a family on vacation. And all Yuval wants is to get the heck out of there.17.X.2013; 16:00; SHD;+;;N2;;
- DirectorIván Mora ManzanoStarsEnzo MacchiavelloAndres Troya HolstPaola BaldionThe portrait of an invisible generation. A punk ballad told from the point of view of 10 youngsters with stories that interconnect, not with their destinies but with their concepts: the trip as a way of reinvention, questioning happiness and the system, evasion, moral limits, madness, decadence and love.17.X.2013; 18:45; 1-2;+;director;N2;;
- DirectorHisham ZamanStarsAbdullah TaherSuzan IlirBahar OzenA sixteen-year-old boy gets wrapped in plastic, and lowered into a tank truck full of crude oil. That's how Hisham Zaman's long awaited feature film debut begins.17.X.2013; 21:00; X;+;;N2;;
- DirectorAnca DamianStarsJamie SivesAna UlaruKim BodniaAn unsettled summer becomes the background of an erotic twist that track four characters into a fictional game. But playing fiction is not an innocent game.18.X.2013; 13:45; IC;+;director,actresses;N2;;
- DirectorVolodymyr TykhyyStarsLesya KalynskaYuriy OdinokiyOleksandra PetkoThe film is set in present times. In the suburbs of the city a 7 years old child disappears. After a month of ineffective searches boy's older sister decides to take the deal over. She is confident that she knows who kidnapped her brother. Despair, guiltiness and powerlessness - is that enough to justify a terrible revenge?18.X.2013; 18:30; IC;+;;;;;ticket unchecked
- DirectorLaïla MarrakchiStarsMorjana AlaouiNadine LabakiHiam AbbassThe whole family is reunited when Sofia comes back for her father's funeral. Quickly, inner problems are revealed.18.X.2013; 21:00;;+;;; ticket unchecked
- DirectorKarolos ZonarasStarsMeletis GeorgiadisKatia Leclerc O'WallisEvgenia ApostolouLieutenant Kormas is investigating the murder of a colleague, unearthing a dirty conspiracy where organized crime and law enforcement are two sides of the same coin.19.X.2013; 9:30; ODK;+;;N2;;
- DirectorMilko LazarovStarsChristos StergioglouMariana ZhikichOvanes TorosianA Greek man, past his fifties, is driving an old-fashioned car across the border to Bulgaria to buy a child.19.X.2013; 13:45; 1-2;+;producer,montage;N2;;
- DirectorDavid Gordon GreenStarsPaul RuddEmile HirschLance LeGaultTwo highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind.19.X.2013; 16:00; PS; +;;N2;;
- DirectorBranislav 'Brane' BalaNemanja BalaStarsMilan MuminJelena StupljaninEleanor HutchinsHow rock 'n' roll survived in Yellow Cab.19.X.2013; 18:45; 1-2;+;directors,composer,actor;N2;;
- DirectorPetri LuukkainenStarsPetri LuukkainenHelena SaarinenJuho LuukkainenPetri Luukkainen conducts an experiment with his own life. He packs all his things and puts them in storage. At first naked in an empty apartment, he only allows himself to retrieve one item per day.19.X.2013; 21:30; DOC; +; director; N2;;
- DirectorMasahiro KobayashiStarsTatsuya NakadaiShinobu TerajimaKazuki KitamuraIn 2010, 31,560 people ended their own lives and about 20,000 people died or went missing with the earthquake. Unemployed widower Fujio Murai's family tragedy contains instances of both; diagnosed with lung cancer, Fujio refuses surgery and returns home with his son Yoshio.20.X.2013; 9:30; ODK;+;;N2;;
- DirectorSebastian ButtnyStarsGreg StoschIzabela NowakowskaPiotr Glowacki'Heavy Mental' tells the story of an unemployed actor, suffering from a mental block, who is being offered to play a tragicomic part in his own life. In return for a flat, he is supposed to pick up some girl and then 'transfer' her to his employer. An immoral proposition leads the characters into the depths of their own fear, which so far they have been hiding from themselves and the world - the fear of being ordinary.20.X.2013; 16:15; 1-2;+; operator, actor;N2;;
- DirectorMárk BodzsárStarsAndrás ÖtvösRoland RábaTamás Keresztes1992. Milan Kolarov escapes from Yugoslavia to Hungary. Shortly after that, he gets recruited by paramedics, who are making big money of selling identities of the people died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.20.X.2013; 18:45; 1-2;+;N2;;