Lovers of unconventional, offbeat cinema have been on a roll this fortnight. The Asian Film Festival comes right after the Mumbai Film Festival
Lovers of unconventional, offbeat cinema have been on a roll this fortnight. The Asian Film Festival comes right after the Mumbai Film Festival. If you missed the fantastic line up at MAMI, this is your chance to catch some super cinema coming out from our continent. Here's the schedule for today:
A still from The Qandil Mountains
YB Chavan Centre, nariman point
Haeundae
Time: 11 am to 1 pm
Billed as South Korea's first disaster film.
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Splinters
Time: 2 pm to 4 pm
The story of three young people living in Silesia who come from different backgrounds and have different aspirations.
The Water
Time: 4 pm to 6 pm
This philosophical film is about an old man who lived a long life. But as they say, it is time to collect stones and the old man appraisingly looks back to the past.
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Time: 6.30 pm to 8.30 pm
A psychologically penetrating film in which a woman's disappearance gives rise to all sorts of complex issues of morality (both within an Iranian context and beyond).
Plaza Theatre, dadar
Khudakushi
Time: 10 am to 1.30 pm
The plot is based on the lives of two Muslim youngsters who get involved in terrorist activities.
The Qandil Mountains
Time: 11.30 am to 1 pm
The borders of Iran, Turkey, and Iraq meet at a region called the Qandil Mountains. For years together, soldiers of these three countries have been fighting the Kurdish peshmergas (Kurdish life-staker combatants) in this region.
Tangled Up In Blue
Time: 1.30 pm to 3 pm
The son of a world renowned Iraqi writer faces the aftermath of his father's assassination in Baghdad, and his undeclared love for his best friend.
Rupantar
Time: 3.30 pm to 5.30 pm
The film is based on the famous epic, The Mahabharata.
Kharij
Time: 6 pm to 8 pm
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Time: 8.30 pm to 10.30 pm
Mustafa is a hard-working, ambitious agricultural merchant who is cold and austere towards his family. One day, he has a brain hemorrhage on a business trip and goes into a coma after the operation.u00a0
Plaza Theatre (Mini), dadar
The Magic Tree
Time: 10.30 am to 12 noon
A storm has knocked down a seemingly ordinary huge oak, yet it was a magic tree ufffd One day, three children -- Tosia, Philip, and Kuki -- find a chair made from that tree which will make any dream come true.
Muhabbatnoma
Time: 12 noon to 1.30 pm
This Uzbeki film features a star cast from Uzbekistan and Bollywood.
Short Film Fiction
Competition - Group V
Time: 2 pm to 4 pm
The Wall
Time: 4 pm to 6 pm
A film from Taiwan, based on the white terror in the 1950s.
Adrift
Time: 6 pm to 8 pm
Duyen, a beautiful tourist guide marries Hai, a taxi driver, believing marriage will make her happy. It turns out otherwise. Her close friend Cam, a writer, also has a complicated and unhappy relationship with Tho. An accidental meeting between Duyen and Tho uncovers the void in the lives of the two women.
Fun Republic, Andheri
A Man Who Ate His Cherries
Time: 10 am to 11.30 am
Reza, a factory worker learns that he is infertile. His frustrated wife Zari files successfully for divorce and Reza has to raise money to pay back her dowry. Reduced to basics, Reza scrounges for the necessary cash until an industrial accident suddenly gives him an idea.
Bist -- Twenty
Time: 11.45 am to 1.15 pm
A once thriving reception hall has been reduced to catering to the funeral business and the sombre rituals of death. The owner, Soleimani, is a sour, lonely and unloved old man who treats his workers with contempt, inflicting small cruelties whenever possible.
The leap of Afalina
Time: 2 pm to 3.30 pm
This film is from Kazak and is directed by Eldor Urabaev.
Cloudy
Time: 4 pm to 6 pm
Cloudy consists of three episodes. In the first episode, an old man loses his way. In the second, two friends set out for a hunting jaunt to a snow capped mountain, in the third episode a young couple go into a forest adjacent to the beach and as a result of an accident that happens to the young man, his spouse experiences some self-conflicting emotions.
The Girls
Time: 6.30 pm to 8.30 pm
This is an Iranian film by Ghasem Jafari.
You can register at the venues. Passes are for Rs 400 (Rs 200 for students and film society members).
Log on to www.affmumbai.com or Call on 24137791 for more details.
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