18th Chennai International Film Festival - CIFF 2021 - Film List
Movies missed in the below List:
1. Akka Kuruvi - Samy
2. That Night's train - Hamidreza Ghotbi
3. Labour - Sathyapathy
4. Endraavathu Oru Naal - Vetri Duraisamy
5. Window Seat - Bharathraj
6. Amala - Nishad Embrahim
7. Bridge - Kripl Kalita
8. Karakhanisanchi Wann - Mangesh Joshi
9. Kalira Atita - Nila Madhab Panda
1. Akka Kuruvi - Samy
2. That Night's train - Hamidreza Ghotbi
3. Labour - Sathyapathy
4. Endraavathu Oru Naal - Vetri Duraisamy
5. Window Seat - Bharathraj
6. Amala - Nishad Embrahim
7. Bridge - Kripl Kalita
8. Karakhanisanchi Wann - Mangesh Joshi
9. Kalira Atita - Nila Madhab Panda
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- DirectorMalou ReymannStarsKaya Toft LoholtMikkel Boe FølsgaardRigmor RantheEmma has a perfectly normal family until one day it turns out her dad, Thomas, is transgender. As Thomas becomes Agnete, both father and daughter struggle to hold on to what they had while accepting that everything has changed.
- DirectorPaula HernándezStarsErica RivasOrnella D'ElíaMarilú MariniTracking the tandem voyages of a mother and daughter into fraught emotional terrain, Argentinian director Paula Hernández examines the ways desire and expectation clash when familial pressures push women to their limits.
- DirectorStéphane DemoustierStarsRoschdy ZemChiara MastroianniMelissa GuersA teenager stands trial for murdering her best friend.
- DirectorGuillaume NiclouxStarsGaspard UllielGuillaume GouixLang Khê TranIndochina War, 1945: French soldier Robert is the only survivor of a massacre in which his brother has died. Blinded by revenge, he rejoins the forces in search of the assassins. But meeting the young Indochinese Maï disrupts his mission.
- DirectorFernanda ValadezStarsMercedes HernándezDavid IllescasJuan Jesús VarelaA mother travels across Mexico in search for her son whom authorities say died while trying to cross the borders into the United States.
- DirectorTim SuttonStarsCosmo JarvisDela MeskienyarBarzin AkhavanThe destruction of his grandparents' home leads a young man to take revenge under a masked persona.
- DirectorJan Philipp WeylStarsAshenafi NigusuMikias WoldeJoseph Reta BelayIn Ethiopia, two men are running to achieve their dreams.
- DirectorAhmad BahramiStarsAli BagheriMahdie NassajFarrokh NematiLotfollah is a brick factory supervisor, acting as go-between for the workers and the boss. The boss wants to talk to the them about the shutdown of the factory. All matters now to Lotfollah is to keep Sarvar, the woman he loves, unharmed.
- DirectorSiamak EtemadiStarsMelika ForoutanShahbaz NoshirSofia KokkaliThe search of an Iranian mother, Pari, for her missing son in Athens will force her on a journey to the dark corners of the city as well as the hidden depth of her own self.
- DirectorMamadou DiaStarsAlassane SyAicha TallaSaikou LoA fight between an Imam and his powerful brother over their children's marriage. At stake: how a small community slowly drifts towards extremism.
- DirectorAtiq RahimiStarsAmanda MugabezakiAlbina KirengaMalaika UwamahoroA coming-of-age story about of a group of Rwandan schoolgirls at a Belgian-run Catholic boarding school.
- DirectorSilja HauksdóttirStarsKatla M. ÞorgeirsdóttirÞorsteinn BachmannBjörn Hlynur HaraldssonRannveig is experiencing burnout in all aspects of her mundane suburban life. She's stuck with a job she hates and a marriage that is slowly dying. On top of that, she's constantly fighting with her rebellious daughter, Agnes, and can't face the possibility of Agnes growing up and leaving her behind. When a new neighbor, Hreinn, shows up at their doorstep, Rannveig and family face new challenges that are beyond their control.
- DirectorJanis RafailidouStarsPenelope TsilikaDimitris LalosMichele ValleyIn a big city somewhere in the south of Europe, a couple takes care of dead animals and abandoned roadkill as an act to give meaning to their life. Kala azar is a meditation on the paradox of life-circles among beings of different species.
- DirectorMauro ManciniStarsAlessandro GassmannSara SerraioccoLuka ZunicThe son of a Holocaust survivor who lives in Trieste as a surgeon begins to doubt his actions of refusing to help a victim of a traffic accident that he encountered on his way home from work.
- DirectorBurhan QurbaniStarsWelket BunguéAlbrecht SchuchJella HaaseA man from Guinea-Bissau moves to Germany, where he is befriended by a drug dealer and two women.
- DirectorGjergj XhuvaniStarsAriton PollozhaniTristan HalilajVedran ZivolicMY LAKE, or "my movie", although it is a cinematic narrative in itself, is quite simply an ordinary story, natural for its extraordinary reality, unnatural for Albanian society. For about three decades this same leitmotif has continued played out in one form or another. Drug trafficking, money - Children are born and raised with an atypical moral code where making money to lift you out of poverty, by illegal means, somehow makes you a man. It makes you somebody.
- DirectorMicha LewinskyStarsMiriam SteinPhilippe GraberMike MüllerAround the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, hundreds of thousands of people were spied on in Switzerland. Policeman Schuler goes undercover to reveal a possible political coup in the Zurich Schauspielhaus.
- DirectorErcan KesalStarsErcan KesalSelin YeninciInanç KonukçuErcan Kesal's debut feature, a one-day tragicomic story of doctor Kemal, who wants to become a candidate for Istanbul's Beyoglu district mayor. He is trying every way to become a candidate. Unexpected events will occur that night.
- DirectorPiotr DomalewskiStarsZofia StafiejKinga PreisArkadiusz JakubikOla, a seventeen-year-old, sets off to a foreign country on her own. It turns out to be the trip of her lifetime, where she tries to reconnect with her estranged father, comes to know a different world and changes her approach to life.
- DirectorRamin RasouliStarsAtefeh AminiNegin ParsaAmir Hossein SadeghiIn a remote area in Afghanistan, stories of the lives of a young shepherdess, a bird catcher boy and a mourning teacher are intertwined by the wounds of war which are still bleeding.
- DirectorDavid AlbalaStarsAlberto EllenaAmparo NogueraBenjamín VicuñaThis drama is inspired on a real event in 1990 when 49 political prisoners escaped from a tunnel that took 18 months to dig.
- DirectorChristian PetzoldStarsPaula BeerFranz RogowskiMaryam ZareeUndine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin's urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her and return to the water.
- DirectorFrancisco MárquezStarsElisa CarricajoMecha MartínezEliot OtazoCecilia is a sociology teacher. One night the son of her maid desperately knocks on the door of her house. She doesn't open. The next day, his body shows up murdered by the police. Cecilia begins to be haunted by the young man's ghost.
- DirectorZoltán NagyStarsErik MajorGábor MátéLulu BognárA coming-of-age story set in the contemporary Hungarian countryside, where teenager soloist Dávid decides to stand up for Nóri, 13, a cellist in their youth orchestra who is having a suspiciously close relationship with their 60-year-old conductor. While looking for the truth, Dávid's life soon starts to spiral out of control as he faces tough decisions and the adult society's negligence.
- DirectorChristos NikouStarsAris ServetalisSofia GeorgovassiliAnna KalaitzidouAmidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, middle-aged Aris finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help unclaimed patients build new identities.