Chennai film festival 2019
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- DirectorLise RavenStarsFrank BrücknerEmily BehrVíkingur KristjánssonA journalist travels to Iceland to cover the locals routine and sees himself caught up into a mysterious series of emotional breakdowns. He develops an ambiguous connection to a naive taxi driver and his beekeeper wife, showing empathy to his own work material.
- DirectorJon GarciaStarsAl'Jaleel McGheeAmber StonebrakerAlan BurrellThe two main characters work through their relationship in a moderately sexy time in bed. They had met again after two years when they worked together in Reality TV.
- DirectorCarlo CaldanaStarsSolana PazCristina AnselmoKeith JefferdsA deaf painter finds his wife alive, two years after her supposed death, and winds up in a whirlwind of misunderstanding and intrigue.
- DirectorLucía GaribaldiStarsRomina BentancurFederico MorosiniFabián ArenillasTwo young lovers embark on a relationship while a rumor of sharks at the beach has everyone talking.
- DirectorNariman AlievStarsAkhtem SeitablaevRemzi BilyalovDariya BarikhashviliA father and a son from Crimean Tatar family transport the body of deceased older son and brother from Kyiv to bury him in Crimea.
- DirectorSherry HormannStarsAlmila BagriacikRauand TalebMerve AksoyAynur, a German woman of Kurdish-Turkish descent, struggles for a free, self-determined life in the face of her family's opposition. Her brothers insult and threaten her until she finally reports her oldest brother to the police.
- DirectorOlgun ÖzdemirStarsClémence VerniauCaglar ErtugrulYilsen OzdemirIn this heartfelt, emotionally moving film, three strangers lives are shattered by tragic events as they find themselves crossing paths on an amazing journey searching for strength and hope.
- DirectorCan EvrenolStarsDenizhan AkbabaElif SevinçÖzgür CivelekIn a war-torn post-apocalyptic region, a bunch of kids, who suffer from deformed limbs due to a toxic explosion, embark on an adventure.
- DirectorKhavnStarsJustine SamsonPio Del RioWarren TuañoIn 1901 Balangiga, eight-year-old Kulas flees with his grandfather and their carabao to escape General Smith's Kill and Burn order. he finds a toddler amid a sea of corpses, and together the two boys struggle to survive the American occupation.
- DirectorMelina LeónStarsPamela MendozaTommy PárragaLucio RojasGeorgina's newborn daughter is stolen at a fake health clinic. Her desperate search for the child leads her to the headquarters of a major newspaper, where she meets a lonely journalist who takes on the investigation.
- DirectorBruno GasconStarsMichalina OlszanskaVítor NorteRita BlancoA lorry, a road and an unpredictable destiny, all intersecting in a human trafficking network. Caught up in this web, Viktoriya has only one chance: fight to survive.
- DirectorCatalin RotaruGabi Virginia SargaStarsAlexandru SuciuCristina FluturVirgil AioaneiCristian, a young surgeon, an idealist devoted to his vocation, works at a hospital in Bucharest. He is the only one disturbed by the unexpected deaths of patients after successful surgeries. He starts investigating and makes a shocking discovery. For years, the hospital has been buying ineffective biocides. The sub-standard disinfectants have led to infections and death. Trying to publicize the affair, Cristian cannot break the wall of indifference. His wife leaves him, he is marginalized by his friends and associates, he struggles in vain to get through to reporters, ministers, prosecutors and investigators. When he is on the verge of a breakdown, he takes a scalpel and starts following the owner of the dodgy biocide company. Justice must be served.
- DirectorKantemir BalagovStarsViktoria MiroshnichenkoVasilisa PerelyginaAndrey Bykov1945, Leningrad. WWII has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Two young women search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins.
- DirectorMasa NeskovicStarsDaria Lorenci FlatzUliks FehmiuMira JanjetovicThree couples in one city seem to share exactly the same destinies.
- DirectorGoran PaskaljevicStarsDonatella FinocchiaroGiorgio TirabassiAli Mousa SarhanAccording to Interpol, over ten thousand refugees of minors without parental care are wandering today in Europe, half of which are on Italian roads. "Despite the Fog" is a movie story about one of them. In short: Ali-Musa Sarhan, a refugee whose parents drowned while traveling by rubber boat on the Italian coast in search of a better life, is accepted by family, husband and wife who have lost a child. They are trying to find solace in little Arab and a sort of replacement for their early deceased son, Mark. Valeria (Donatella Finokjaro) and Paolo (Giorgio Tirabasi) are increasingly confronted with resistance from the environment and their own family, who do not accept their decision to keep Muhammad - It is also a story of a world that is increasingly sinking into xenophobic fog.
- DirectorBong Joon HoStarsSong Kang-hoLee Sun-kyunCho Yeo-jeongGreed and class discrimination threaten the newly-formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.
- DirectorAlaeddine SlimStarsAbdullah MiniawySouhir Ben AmaraKhaled BenaissaS is a young soldier in the southern desert of Tunisia. When he learns about his mother's death, he obtains a week's leave and goes back home. He will never return to the camp.
- DirectorMehdi BarsaouiStarsSami BouajilaNajla Ben AbdallahYoussef Khemiri11 year old Aziz needs a liver transplant after being seriously injured during a terrorist ambush while on holiday in 2011. At the hospital a family secret will be revealed.
- DirectorMehmet TanriseverStarsSoydan SoydasSeçil Buket AkinciTarik TanriseverMehmet, being an idealistic man of principle, has decided to leave his job as an Imam to become a movie director. But now, he finds himself unable to raise the money he needs to fund his new film project. Mehmet is a divorced man. His wife left him because of his financial difficulties.
- DirectorSam de JongStarsSlick WoodsGeorge Sample IIIDanny HochA teenager in a family shelter wages war against the system to keep her sisters together while she pursues her dreams of being a dancer. A story about displaced youth, ambition. and strength.
- DirectorMariano CohnStarsPeter LanzaniAilén MazioniDady BrievaA thug breaks into a specialized car with a special security system that keeps him trapped inside with no one being able to hear him crying for help.
- DirectorVeit HelmerStarsPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicPaz VegaChulpan KhamatovaTo escape from his lonely existence, Nurlan embarks on the most adventurous journey of his life: to find the owner of this perky piece of blue underwear. He rents a small room in Baku and begins his quest.
- DirectorSarah HirttStarsFrançois NeyckenRaphaëlle CorbisierYohan MancaSiblings torn apart by the hazards of life meet in Spain to settle the family's modest inheritance. Gustave, the mover, on the brink of bankruptcy, Jules the anarchistic activist, and Lou, the youngest, lost between her brothers, yearning for the unknown. Each one has a different outlook on life and their personal projects for this inheritance will reawaken family disagreements and phantoms of the past.
- DirectorGuto ParenteStarsTavinho TeixeiraAna Luiza RiosPedro DominguesOtavio and Gilda's elite life falls in danger when Gilda accidentally discovers a secret from Borges, a powerful congressman, and the Club's leader.
- DirectorTiago ArakilianStarsKathia CalilJosé de AbreuEucir de SouzaAt the age of 80, Polidoro decides to demolish the stability of his comfortable life as a retired judge and become the owner of a strip club.
- DirectorAlice FurtadoStarsSílvia BuarqueLuiza KosovskiLourenço MutarelliAn introspective young girl falls for the new boy in class, an outcast who is also a hemophiliac.
- DirectorGabriel MascaroStarsDira PaesJulio MachadoAntonio PastichA woman uses her bureaucratic job to convince divorcing couples to stay together and is utterly committed to getting pregnant by her husband in a future of dance parties, ritualistic orgies and fundamentalist Christianity.
- DirectorNadejda KosevaStarsMartina ApostolovaHristo UshevIrini JambonasIrina is a part-time waitress in a small Bulgarian town. On the very same day when she is fired, her husband gets into a serious accident. Irina's family is trapped in poverty. To make ends meet, she becomes a surrogate mother. Fights, despair and the seed of life growing in her belly bring on another wave to this rough and wrecked life. Slowly, Irina discovers what it means to love and to forgive.
- DirectorFeng ZuStarsFeng ZuLu HuangMinghao ChenA detective investigating a bizarre murder case begins to fall in love with a surgeon he has met while trying to solve the crime.
- DirectorXiaoshuai WangStarsJingchun WangMei YongXi QiTwo married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.
- DirectorNeto VillalobosStarsDaniela MoraGabriel RojasArturo PardoMancha is an easygoing bike messenger with no big expectations in life. His only cares in the world are riding his motorcycle, being with his girlfriend Clara, and hanging out with his fellow messengers. His carefree existence is disrupted one day when they all get fired and Clara announces that she is moving to Horse Island - a place that doesn't allow any motorcycles. Faced with no other job prospects, Mancha forms a debt-collecting biker gang with his messenger buddies to try and preserve his way of life and win Clara back.
- DirectorArsen A. OstojicStarsFilip MayerRomina TonkovicMladen VulicMartina starts a relationship with Filip, a young man who spends most of his time playing video games. After Martina convinces Filip to steal her father's money to go to the Party Beach, everything turns into a bloody nightmare.
- DirectorUlaa SalimStarsZaki YoussefMohammed Ismail MohammedRasmus BjergDenmark four years into the future. After a major bomb attack in Copenhagen radicalization and ethnic tensions are running high, and a racist leader is leading the polls.19-year old Zakaria is afraid, wanting to do something.
- DirectorMay el-ToukhyStarsTrine DyrholmGustav LindhMagnus KrepperA successful lawyer jeopardizes her career and threatens to tear her family apart after engaging in an affair with her teenage stepson.
- DirectorIsrael CárdenasLaura Amelia GuzmánStarsGeraldine ChaplinUdo KierJackie Ludueña KoslovitchFading actress Vera V. gathers with the remnants of her 70's social circle to shoot her last film: an unfinished script left behind by cherished friend J. L. Jorge.
- DirectorGabriela CalvacheStarsNoëlle SchönwaldCristian MercadoJaime TamarizShe is the perfect woman until she decides to be free.
- DirectorNatasha MerkulovaAlexey ChupovStarsEvgeniy TsyganovNatalya KudryashovaYuriy KuznetsovWhen a Siberian state forest guard discovers he has cancer and only two months left to live he chooses to take the identity of a woman as a way of fighting the disease.
- DirectorPierre de SuzzoniStarsLaura HamisultaneBarthélémy GrossmannAnna SternSarah lives inside a multidimensional love, torn between a past fantasy and a present too much real.
- DirectorCéline SciammaStarsNoémie MerlantAdèle HaenelLuàna BajramiOn an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
- DirectorArnaud DesplechinStarsRoschdy ZemLéa SeydouxSara ForestierA police chief in northern France tries to solve a case where an old woman was brutally murdered.
- DirectorLou JeunetStarsNoémie MerlantNiels SchneiderBenjamin LavernheA passionate love story set against a backdrop of sexual freedom, loosely based on the relationship between 19th-century authors Pierre Louÿs and Marie de Régnier.
- DirectorJustine TrietStarsVirginie EfiraAdèle ExarchopoulosGaspard UllielA jaded psychotherapist returns to her first passion of becoming a writer. However, her life is complicated by a desperate film actress who wants her help, and who draws her into a world of questionable ethics.
- DirectorJulien PaoliniStarsSyrus ShahidiGabriele ArenaPaolo BrancatiGaetano decided that he would bury his deceased brother with his family at all costs, even if it meant defying the laws of his Sicilian village and putting himself and his family in danger.
- DirectorManele LabidiStarsGolshifteh FarahaniMajd MastouraAïsha Ben MiledAfter years abroad in Paris, Selma returns to Tunis with the dream of opening up her own psychotherapy practice.
- DirectorMiriam BlieseStarsBirte SchnöinkOle LagerpuschAndreas DöhlerSophie and Georg once loved each other, but they are now split up. A laconic portrait of a modern patchwork family that plays out before a front door in Berlin. A serious comedy about separation, interspersed with Schlager music.
- DirectorTamer JandaliStarsStella Vivien DhingraNiclas JüngermannSönke AndersenShifting between documentary and fiction, Easy Love follows seven men and women from Cologne on their search for a balance between emotional security and sensual fulfilment.
- DirectorJ.D. DillardStarsKiersey ClemonsEmory CohenHanna Mangan LawrenceA woman washes ashore a small uninhabited island after an accident. The situation turns from bad to worse when she realizes there is a mysterious creature hunting at night.
- DirectorAndreas DresenStarsAlexander ScheerAnna UnterbergerAxel PrahlThe movie deals with the real life story of East German singer and writer Gerhard Gundermann and his struggles with music, life as a coal miner and his dealings with the secret police (STASI) of the GDR.
- DirectorMaria LafiStarsSamuel AkinolaKostas AntalopoulosSpiros BallesterosA random explosion connects three stories of strangers seeking a way to survive on the edge of legality.
- DirectorKároly Ujj MészárosStarsBalázs VeresJuli BástiAbigél SzõkeWould you believe in a policewoman who suffers from such serious panic disorders that she is afraid to get close to any crime scene and has been on permanent office duty for more than a decade? Would you believe a lone mother who is unfit to pay her mortgage and also raise her rebellious teenage daughter? Indeed, no one believes that the troubled ex-detective has discovered a serial murder case. Personal dramas and a murder mystery unfold in present-day Budapest, where demonstrations are part of the pre-election life of a city still trying to cope with the shadows of its historical and recent past. It is a city where nothing seems honest and true, except through the eyes of an emotionally unstable policewoman and her misfit daughter who wants to know who her father truly was.
- DirectorBálint KenyeresStarsVlad IvanovFéodor AtkineJo PrestiaVictor owns a civil engineering company. Due to problems on a building site in North Africa he has to go there, where he is confronted with memories of his youth, slowly plunging into a labyrinthine world where present and past intertwine.
- DirectorGrímur HákonarsonStarsArndís Hrönn EgilsdóttirSveinn Ólafur GunnarssonÆvar Þór BenediktssonA widowed farmer begins a new life on her own terms by fighting against corruption and injustice in her community.
- DirectorNimrod EldarStarsMenashe NoyZohar MeidanAlon NeumanA middle aged single father copes with his teenage daughter's wish to end her life.
- DirectorYaron ShaniStarsBar GottfriedLaliv SivanReni HalabiA young musician is secretly in love with the beautiful woman living across the street. He is unaware of the horrifying mental crisis she is going through. She is oblivious to the heavy price he had to pay when he gave up his dreams. The encounter between them will entwine their fates forever.
- DirectorClaudio GiovannesiStarsFrancesco Di NapoliViviana ApreaMattia Piano Del BalzoA gang of teenage boys stalks the streets of Naples armed with hand guns and AK-47s to do their mob bosses' bidding.
- DirectorCarlo SironiStarsClaudio SegaluscioSandra DrzymalskaBruno BuzziLena is seven months pregnant and she's ready to sell the baby in her belly. Ermanno agrees to pretend to be the father. Fabio, the uncle of Ermanno, will pay them to buy the child that he and his wife Bianca cannot have. A fake adoption between relatives, a loophole to bypass the law cause in Italy the surrogate motherhood is forbidden. A world in which money is the only standard of value, the only thing that matter. Ermanno and Lena are two strangers that must pretend in public to be a couple and live together until the delivery. They are used to only think about themselves and they fight all the time. But living side by side they start becoming what they were only pretending to be.
- DirectorEmiko HiramatsuStarsErika TodaSakurako OharaYui SakumaSet at the end of World War II, the American military is bombing Japan. Kaede and Mitsue band together to take the children under their care to safety. They find shelter and a modicum of safety at an old temple.
- DirectorDavis Simanis Jr.StarsArturs SkrastinsIlze BlaubergaMatiss KipluksZanis Lipke's family's efforts to save the Jews during World War II and the rise of the child in a tragic historical situation.
- DirectorAlaa Eddine AljemStarsYounes BouabSalah Ben SalehBouchaib SemmakA criminal returns to the fake grave where he buried his loot years before and discovers that it has become the shrine of an unknown saint and a thriving little village.
- DirectorMichiel van ErpStarsMinne KooleJonas SmuldersChris PetersThree young friends grow up as students in Amsterdam when the death of one's father puts everything into a new perspective.
- DirectorJoe SillStarsKaren FukuharaChristine WoodsMiyaviAn orphaned teenager forms an unlikely friendship with a detective. Together they investigate her mother's murder, and uncover the supernatural force that proves to be a threat to her family.
- DirectorMartin LundStarsJonas TidemannElli Rhiannon Müller OsborneSaara Sipila-KristoffersenGeneration Achievement meets impossible love. Frida is different; Marius, on the other hand, is the most popular boy in class. When they must work together at school, a turbulent and challenging relationship commences.
- DirectorShilpa Krishnan ShuklaStarsRachita ArkeArzu ArnoolGeeta BalagangadharanWorld's 1st anthology in 8 languages, written, produced and directed by a single film maker. First feature film in 8 Indian languages - Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu.
- DirectorJosephine MackerrasStarsEmilie PiponnierMartin SwabeyChloé BorehamAlice, a happy and perfect wife and mother, has her life turned upside down when she discovers her husband is living a secret life.