BIFFes '18
by abhivirgo53 | created - 23 Feb 2018 | updated - 02 Mar 2018 | PublicMy picks for Bengaluru International Film Festival, 2018.
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1. The Insult (2017)
R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attention.
Director: Ziad Doueiri | Stars: Adel Karam, Kamel El Basha, Camille Salameh, Diamand Abou Abboud
Votes: 18,099 | Gross: $1.00M
23-02 | 5:15 PM | Screen 7 25-02 | 5:00 PM | Screen 5 01-03 | 5:30 PM | Screen 10
2. The Testament (2017)
88 min | Drama
Yoel, a meticulous historian leading a significant debate against holocaust deniers, discovers that his mother carries a false identity. A mystery about a man who is willing to risk everything to discover the truth.
Director: Amichai Greenberg | Stars: Ori Pfeffer, Rivka Gur, Hagit Dasberg, Orna Rotenberg
Votes: 517
23-02 | 8:00 PM | Screen 8 27-02 | 5:00 PM | Screen 4
3. On Body and Soul (2017)
Not Rated | 116 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
When slaughterhouse workers Endre and Mária discover they share the same dreams, where they meet in a forest as deer and fall in love, they decide to make their dreams come true, but it's difficult in real life.
Director: Ildikó Enyedi | Stars: Alexandra Borbély, Géza Morcsányi, Réka Tenki, Zoltán Schneider
Votes: 29,895
24-02 | 5:15 PM | Screen 7 26-02 | 5:10 PM | Screen 10
4. I Dream in Another Language (2017)
Unrated | 103 min | Drama, Romance
When a language dies, a unique vision of the world is lost forever.
Director: Ernesto Contreras | Stars: Fernando Álvarez Rebeil, José Manuel Poncelis, Eligio Meléndez, Fátima Molina
Votes: 4,057 | Gross: $0.00M
25-02 | 7:40 PM | Screen 8 28-02| 8:15 PM | Screen 8
5. The Final Journey (2017)
107 min | Drama, Romance, War
A former German Army officer, accompanied by his granddaughter, journeys to the Ukraine to find the woman he once loved.
Director: Nick Baker-Monteys | Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Petra Schmidt-Schaller, Tambet Tuisk, Suzanne von Borsody
Votes: 425
24-02 | 11:30 AM | Screen 6
6. Closeness (2017)
118 min | Drama
In the late-1990s squalid town of Nalchik, a poor young Jewish couple is kidnapped and a grievous ransom is demanded, as bitter resentments and cruel dilemmas come to light, magnifying the small community's grave predicament.
Director: Kantemir Balagov | Stars: Darya Zhovner, Atrem Cipin, Nazir Zhukov, Veniamin Kac
Votes: 3,296
24-02 | 7:30 PM | Screen 11 26-02 | 7:50 PM | Screen 4 28-06 | 7:30 PM Screen 4 01-03 | 2:30 PM | Screen 10
7. Secret Ingredient (2017)
104 min | Comedy, Drama
An underpaid train mechanic gives his father a cake made of stolen marijuana to relieve his cancer pain, but he is cornered by the criminals who are searching for their drugs and the nosy neighbors who want a recipe for the "healing" cake.
Director: Gjorce Stavreski | Stars: Blagoj Veselinov, Anastas Tanovski, Aksel Mehmet, Aleksandar Mikic
Votes: 1,364
24-02 | 9:30 AM | Screen 4 28-02 | 9:30 AM | Screen 8
8. A Fantastic Woman (2017)
R | 104 min | Drama
Marina, a transgender woman who works as a waitress and moonlights as a nightclub singer, is bowled over by the death of her older boyfriend.
Director: Sebastián Lelio | Stars: Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco, Aline Küppenheim
Votes: 27,282 | Gross: $2.02M
24-02 | 5:00 PM | Screen 4 27-02 | 5:00 PM | Screen 5
9. Wajib (2017)
96 min | Comedy, Drama
A father and his estranged son must come together to hand deliver his daughter's wedding invitations to each guest as per local Palestinian custom, in this rousing family drama from Annemarie Jacir (When I Saw You).
Director: Annemarie Jacir | Stars: Mohammad Bakri, Saleh Bakri, Tarik Kopty, Monera Shehadeh
Votes: 1,907
26-02 | 6:00 PM | Screen 4 28-02 | 2:30 PM | Screen 7
10. The Giant (2017)
TV-MA | 114 min | Drama, History
A story about the world's tallest man, this is an unsettling Basque-language period drama focused on sibling rivalry.
Directors: Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño | Stars: Joseba Usabiaga, Eneko Sagardoy, Iñigo Aranburu, Ramón Agirre
Votes: 4,672
11. Thelma (2017)
Not Rated | 116 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A confused religious girl tries to deny her feelings for a female friend who's in love with her. This causes her suppressed subconsciously-controlled psychokinetic powers to reemerge with devastating results.
Director: Joachim Trier | Stars: Eili Harboe, Kaya Wilkins, Henrik Rafaelsen, Ellen Dorrit Petersen
Votes: 36,632 | Gross: $0.15M
26-02 | 12:00 PM | Screen 5 28-02 | 9:45 AM | Screen 4 01-03 | 3:20 PM | Screen 2
12. The Third Murder (2017)
Not Rated | 124 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A courtroom drama centered around the murder of a factory president.
Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Masaharu Fukuyama, Koji Yakusho, Suzu Hirose, Shinnosuke Mitsushima
Votes: 8,005 | Gross: $0.09M
24-02 | 7:20 PM | Screen 4
13. Loveless (2017)
R | 127 min | Drama
A couple going through a divorce must team up to find their son who has disappeared during one of their bitter arguments.
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev | Stars: Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, Matvey Novikov, Marina Vasileva
Votes: 35,569 | Gross: $0.57M
23-02 | 5:30 PM | Screen 10
14. Killing Jesus (2017)
TV-MA | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After the murder of her father, a young art student Paula searches for the contracted killer who carried out the crime, a young man named Jesús.
Director: Laura Mora Ortega | Stars: Natasha Jaramillo, Giovanny Rodríguez, Carmenza Cossio, Camilo Escobar
Votes: 1,124
24-02 | 6:40 PM | Screen 6 01-03 | 8:00 PM | Screen 11
15. Directions (2017)
103 min | Drama
Multiple stories of taxi drivers while they work one night.
Director: Stephan Komandarev | Stars: Haralan Alexandrov, Dimitar Banenkin, Vasil Banov, Ivan Barnev
Votes: 2,137
24-02 | 5:45 PM | Screen 8 01-03 | 7:00 PM | Screen 6
16. Zagros (2017)
102 min | Drama
Havin, the young wife of Kurdish shepherd Zagros, is being accused of adultery. She flees with their daughter Rayhan from Kurdistan to Brussels. Zagros is convinced of her innocence, leaves his family to start a new life.
Director: Sahim Omar Kalifa | Stars: Maaike Neuville, Feyyaz Duman, Halima Ilter, Janne Desmet
Votes: 639
23-02 | 8:00 PM | Screen 4
17. Sin muertos no hay carnaval (2016)
PG-13 | 100 min | Thriller
Everything begins with a stray bullet... And a wealthy young man trying to evict 250 families who are squatting on the land he inherited from his father. The leader of the squatter ... See full summary »
Director: Sebastián Cordero | Stars: Daniel Adum Gilbert, Victor Arauz, Diego Cataño, Andrés Crespo
Votes: 223
24-02 | 7:45 PM | Screen 7
18. A Sort of Family (2017)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A woman flies from Buenos Aires to be present for the birth of the child she has arranged to adopt. When the child is born, she is confronted with a demand from the biological mother's ... See full summary »
Director: Diego Lerman | Stars: Bárbara Lennie, Daniel Aráoz, Claudio Tolcachir, Paula Cohen
Votes: 767
24-02 | 8:20 PM | Screen 6 28-02 | 12:00 PM | Screen 7
19. Custody (2017)
93 min | Drama, Thriller
A broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the centre.
Director: Xavier Legrand | Stars: Léa Drucker, Denis Ménochet, Thomas Gioria, Mathilde Auneveux
Votes: 10,323 | Gross: $0.08M
23-02 | 6:20 PM | Screen 6 26-02 | 5:45 PM | Screen 9 01-03 | 5:00 PM | Screen 6
20. Five Fingers for Marseilles (2017)
120 min | Drama, Thriller, Western
Lives change forever when Tau, the young lion, kills two corrupt policemen in a South African shanty town.
Director: Michael Matthews | Stars: Vuyo Dabula, Zethu Dlomo-Mphahlele, Hamilton Dlamini, Kenneth Nkosi
Votes: 986
24-02 | 9:30 AM | Screen 10
21. The Wound (2017)
Unrated | 88 min | Drama, Romance
Xolani, a lonely factory worker, travels to the rural mountains with the men of his community to initiate a group of teenage boys into manhood.
Director: John Trengove | Stars: Nakhane, Bongile Mantsai, Niza Jay, Thobani Mseleni
Votes: 2,089 | Gross: $0.03M
23-02 | 4:00 PM | Screen 4 01-03 | 7:50 PM | Screen 9
22. Eye on Juliet (2017)
96 min | Drama, Romance
A security robot operator in Detroit forms a connection with a young woman in North Africa who is trying to escape her engagement to a much older man.
Director: Kim Nguyen | Stars: Joe Cole, Lina El Arabi, Brent Skagford, Faycal Zeglat
Votes: 566
23. The Square (2017)
R | 151 min | Comedy, Drama
A prestigious Stockholm museum's chief art curator finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit.
Director: Ruben Östlund | Stars: Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, Dominic West, Terry Notary
Votes: 77,329 | Gross: $1.50M
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