7th Bengaluru International Film Festival 2014 (BIFFES 2014) was inaugurated by the honorable Chief Minister of Karnataka, Siddaramaiah on 4 December 2014 in Bengaluru. The film festival is showcasing 175 films from 45 countries in 11 screens across the City from 4 to 11 December.
Participation Bengaluru International film festival attracts people of all ages, Film industry people, students. Many of the colleges encouraged their students to participate or volunteer for the festival. Jain University, NMKRV College, St Joseph's College, Central College, National School of Drama's Bengaluru chapter are some of the institutes which actively participated in the festival with their mass communication students.
Photo Exhibition
The seventh edition of Bengaluru International Film Festival (BIFFes), in association with Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, had organized a photo exhibition called Hybrid Modernisation - Movie Theatres in South India by Sabine Haubitz and Stefanie Zoche to provides a view of the surviving single screens in south India.
The exhibition talks about the current status of single-screen theaters in the south Indian region which includes the states Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh between 2010 and 2013.
Here is an extensive listing of the movies screened in BIFFES 2014.
Asian cinema competition No Film Name Director Country 1 Asha Jadar Majhe (Labour of Love) Aditya Vikram Sengupta India 2 Dreamz - The Movie Sumana Mukherjee India 3 Swapaanam (The Voiding Soul) Shaji N. Karun India 4 Daughter (Dukhtar) Afia Nathaniel Pakistan 5 Ba Digaran (With Others) Nasser Zamiri Iran 6 Akash Koto Dure (The Distant Sky) Samia Zaman Bangladesh 7 Sakkarang Dr. Dharmasena Pathiraja Sri Lanka 8 Prakruti Panchakshari India 9 Aithihannu Mattu Kanaja (Fig Fruit And The Wasps) MS Prakash Babu India 10 The River of Colours Shahneoyaj Cacoly Bangladesh
Indian cinema competition Sl.# Film Name Director Country Language 1 Kranthidhara Himansu Sekhar Khatua India Oriya 2 Yellow Mahesh Limaye India Marathi 3 Ek Phaali Rodh Atanu Ghosh India Bengali 4 Adomya Bobby Sarma Baruah India Assamese 5 Pannaiyarum Padminiyum S U Arun Kumar India Tamil 6 Kuttram Kadithal Bramma G India Tamil 7 Alif NK Muhammed Koya India Malayalam 8 Njaan Ranjith India Malayalam 9 Unto the Dusk Sajin Babu India Malayalam 10 Agasi Parlour(Salon by the fort entrance) Mahantesh Ramdurg India Kannada 11 Munnariyippu Venu India Malayalam
Kannada competition
Sl. # Film name Director Country 1 Prakruti Panchakshari India 2 Agasi Parlour Mahantesh Ramdurg India 3 Harivu Manjunath S India 4 Ulidavaru Kandanthe Rakshit Shetty India 5 Gajakesari S Krishna India 6 Hajj Nikhil Manjoo India 7 Ingale Marga Vishal Raj India 8 December - 1 P Sheshadri India 9 Sachin Tendulkar Alla S Mohan India 10 Brahmashri Narayana Guru Swamy (tulu) Shekhar R Kotyan India
Cinema of the world No Film Name Director Country 1 A Street In Palermo Emma Dante Italy 2 Ariane's Thread Robert Guediguian France 3 Brotherhood of Tears (LA CONFRERIE DES LARMES)Jean-Baptisle Andrea Belgium 4 Kidon Emmanuel Naccache Israel 5 Meetings with a Young Poet Rudy Barichello Canada 6 Now or Never (Maintenant ou jamais) Serge Frydman France 7 Vandal Helier Cisterne France 8 3X3D Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway, Edgar Pêra Portugal 9 Natural Sciences Matias Lucchesi Argentina 10 Stray Dogs (Jiao You) Tsai Ming Liang Taiwan 11 THE EMPTY HOURS (LAS HORAS MUERTAS) Aaron Fernandez Mexico 12 The Owners Adilkhan Yerzhanov Kazakhstan 13 Colette MILAN CIESLAR Slovakia 14 Mrs. Nergis (Nergis Hanim) Gorkem Sarkan Turkey 15 Taste of Poetry Savas Baykal Turkey 16 Overture (Uvertur) Alpgiray M. Ugurlu Turkey 17 Koltuk (The Sofa) Meltem Parlak Turkey 18 Yunus Emre Askin Sesi - Yunus Emre 'The Voice of Love'. Kursat Kizbaz Turkey 19 Les beaux jours (Bright Days Ahead) Marion Vernoux France 20 Gare du Nord Claire Simon France 21 Jappeloup Christian Duguay France 22 Michael Kohlhass Arnaud des Pallières France 23 Un château en Italie (A Castle in Italy) Valeria Bruni Tedeschi France 24 Violette Martin Provost France 25 Monument to Michael Jackson Dark Lungulov Serbia 26 Patchwork Family (Du goudron et des plumes) Pascale Rabate France 27 Ping Pong Summer Michael Tully USA 28 Trapped PARVIZ SHAHBAZI Iran 29 Norte, The End of History Lav Diaz Philippines 30 Son of Trauco Alan Fischer Chile 31 Summer (Zomer) Colette Bothof Netherlands 32 Unlikely Heros Peter Luisi Switzerland 33 The Fool Yuriy Bykov Russian 34 Melbourne Nima javidi Iran 35 Tales Rakhshan Bani-Etemad Iran 36 Hadji Sha Ali Zamani Esmati Iran 37 Marseille (Marsella) Belen Macias Spain 38 Behavior (Conducta) Ernesto Daranas Cuba 39 Refugiado Diego Lerman Argentina 40 Mr. Kaplan Álvaro Brechner Uruguay 41 The Blue Man Utku Celik Turkey 42 The Longest Distance (LA DISTANCIA MÁS LARGA) Claudia Pinto Venezuela 43 Lulu in the Nude ( Lulu, femme nue) Sólveig Anspach France 44 TIMBUKTU Abderrahmane Sissako Mauritania 45 Two Days one Night Jean Pierre/Luc Dardenne Belgium 46 Jimmy's Hall Ken Loach United Kingdom 47 The Search Michel Hazanavicius France 48 Coming Home Zhang Yimou China 49 Stations of the Cross Dietrich Brüggemann Germany 50 In Between Worlds Feo Aladag Germany 51 West Christian Schwochow Germany 52 Ms.Sixty Sigrid Hoerner Germany 53 Two Lives Georg Maas, Judith Kaufmann Germany 54 Omar Hany Abu-Assad Palestine 55 ZONE PRO SITE CHEN Yu-Hsun Taiwan 56 Juliets HOU Chi-Jan, SHEN Ko-Shang, CHEN Yu-Hsun Taiwan 57 The Lesson Kristinagrozeva / Petar Valchanov Bulgaria | Greece 58 Foreign Body Krzysztof Zanussi Poland 59 Field of Dogs Lech Majewski Poland 60 The Ambassador to Bern (A berni követ) Attila Szász Hungary 61 Illitrate (Las analfabetas) Moisés Sepúlveda Chile 62 Test Aleksandr Kott Russia 63 Fly, Dakota, Fly Seiji Aburatani Japan 64 Reunion Ryoichi Kimizuka Japan 65 Casting Blossoms to the Sky Nobuhiko Obayashi Japan 66 Of Horses and Men Benedikt Erlingsson Iceland
Country focus
No Film Name Director Country 1 Bedevilled Jang Cheolsu Soo South Korea 2 Don't Click Kim Tae Kyoung South Korea 3 Helpless Byun Young Jo South Korea 4 Pained Kyung Taek Kwak South Korea 5 THE CRUCIBLE (SILENCED) Hwang Dong Hyeok South Korea 6 Madly In Love (Smoor Verliefd) Hilda Van Mieghem Netherlands 7 Valentino Remy Van Heuqten Netherlands 8 Shocking Blue Mark De Cloe Netherlands 9 Love Is All (Alles is Liefde) Joram Lursen Netherlands 10 Life in One Day ( Het leven uit een dag ) Mark de Cloe Netherlands 11 Tuscan Wedding Johan Nijenhuis Netherlands 12 Deal Eddy Terstall Netherlands
Fipresci No Film Name Director Country 1 Ida Pawel Pawlikowsk Poland 2 Bad Hair Mariano Randon Venezuela 3 Winter Sleep Nuri Bilge Ceylan Turkey 4 The Ballad Of Poor Jean Fellipe Barbosa Brazil 5 No One's Child Vuk Rsumovic Serbia 6 Calvary John Michael McDonagh Ireland
NETPAC
No Film Name Director Country 1 Fish & Cat (Mahi va gorbeh) Shahram Mokri Iran 2 Night of Silence Reis Çelik Turkey 3 Shakespeare Must Die Ing Kanjanavanit Thailand 4 A Cradle For Mother PANAHBARKHODA REZAEE Iran 5 13 (Sizdah) Hooman Seyadi Iran 6 28 Prasanna Jayakody Sri Lanka
Retrospective
No Film Name Director Country 1 Dead Calm Phillip Noyce Australia 2 Rabbit - Proof Fence Phillip Noyce Australia 3 Newsfront Phillip Noyce Australia 4 Backroads Phillip Noyce Australia 5 Constans Krzysztof Zanussi Poland 6 Persona Non grata Krzysztof Zanussi Poland 7 Life as a fatal STD Krzysztof Zanussi Poland 8 Camouflage Krzysztof Zanussi Poland 9 The Illumination Krzysztof Zanussi Poland 10 CWAL Krzysztof Zanussi Poland 11 Supplement Krzysztof Zanussi Poland
Premier
No Film Name Director Country 1 Devara Nadalli B Suresha India 2 Haggada Kone Dayal Padmanabhan India
Gender violence
No Film Name Director Country 1 Oblivion ( Difret) Zersenay Berhane Mehari Ethiopia 2 Mission Rape Annette Mari Olsen & Katia Forbert Petersen Denmark 3 Stoning of Soraya Cyrus Nowrasteh USA 4 The Paternal House Kiandoosh Ayyari Iran 5 Osama Siddiq Barmak Afghanistan 6 Magdalene Sisters Peter Mullan Ireland
Homage
No Film Name Director Country 1 Bara MS Satyu India 2 Maadi Madidavaru K M Shakarappa India 3 Kokila Balu Mahendra India 4 Life of Riley Alain Resnais France
Special tribute
No Film Name Director Country 1 U. R. Ananthamurthy: Not a biography, but a hypothesis Girish Kasaravalli India 2 Samskara Pattabhirama Reddy India 3 Ghatashraddha Girish Kasaravalli India 4 Avasthe Krishna Masadi India 5 Mouni Lingadevaru India
Recommended screenings
No Film Name Director Country 1 Ek Hazarachi Note Shrihari Sathe India 2 Zahir Sidhartha Siva India 3 A Rainy Day Rajendra Talak India 4 Raag - The Rhythm of Love Rajni Basumatary India 5 Gour Hari Dastan Ananth Mahadevan India 6 Kariya Kanbitta Kavitha Lankesh India 7 Chitramandiradalli Venkatachala India
Centenary remembrance - Honnappa Baghavathar & Hunsur Krishnamurthy
No Film Name Director Country 1 Jagajyothi Basaveshwara T V Singh Thakore India 2 Asha Sundari Hunsur Krishnamurthy India
Texts for master classes
No Film Name Director Country 1 Light of Asia (Prem Sanyas) Franz Osten, Himansu Rai India 2 Hatim Tai Prafulla Ghosh India 3 Shakespeare Wallah James Ivory India 4 Pyasa Guru Dutt India 5 Mayabazar Kadri Venkata Reddy India
Grand classics
No Film Name Director Country 1 Pépé le Moko Julien Duvivier France 2 Les enfants du paradis (Children of Paradise) Marcel Carné France 3 Casque d'Or Jacques Becker France 4 Pickpocket Robert Bresson France 5 Les yeux sans visage (Eyes without a face) Georges Franju France 6 Jour de Fete (The Big Day) Jacques Tati France
Restored cinema
No Film Name Director Country 1 Kasturi Nivasa Dorai - Bhagwan India 2 A Woman of Paris Charlie Chaplin USA 3 Limelight Charlie Chaplin USA
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