Span - 14.cdr - Pune International Film Festival

2016
Asian Cinema
Our Little Sister
Umimachi Diary
2015 - 128’- Japanese - Colour - Japan
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Producer: Kaoru Matsuzaki, Hijiri Taguchi
Cast: Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Kaho, Ryo Kase
Screenplay: Akimi Yoshida (manga), Hirokazu Koreeda
Cinematographer: Mikiya Takimoto
Editor: Hirokazu Koreeda
Music Composer: YôkoKanno
Costume Designer: Sacico Ito
Production Company: Toho Company, GAGA, Fuji
Television Network
World Sales Address: Wild Bunch Paris, 65 rue de
Dunkerque. 75009 Paris, France
World Sales Phone: +33 1 43 13 21 39
World Sales Email: [email protected]
Festival/Awards:
A story that revolves around three sisters who live in their grandmother's home. One day
the three sisters receive news of their father's death, who they haven't seen in 15 years.
The sisters attend their father's funeral where they meet their 14-years-old stepsister
Suzu Asano. Since there is no one to take care of her, the oldest sister Sachi invites Suzu to
live with them.
Won Audience Award for Best Film at San Sebastián
International Film Festival (2015)
Cannes Film Festival (2015)
Director’s Biography
Hirokazu Koreeda originally intended to be a novelist, but after
graduating from Waseda University in 1987 went on to become an
assistant director at T. V. Man Union. The main themes of his oeuvre
include memory, loss, death and the intersection of documentary and
fictive narratives. With awards at Venice, Cannes and many other
festivals, he is one of the most acclaimed contemporary film directors
from Japan.
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Director’s Filmography
Like Father, Like Son (2013)
I Wish (2011)
Air Doll (2009)
Hana (2006)
Nobody Knows (2004)
After Life (1998)
2016
Yona
Yona
2014 - 100’- Hebrew - Israel
Asian Cinema
Director: Nir Bergman
Producer: Moshe Edrey, Leon Edery, Chilik Michaeli,
Michael Eckelt, Tami Leon, Avraham Pirchi
Cast: Naomi Levov, Shalom Michaelashvili, Itamar
Rothchild, Michael Moshonov, Tom Hagi
Screenplay: Dita Guery, Nir Bergman
Cinematographer: Lutz Reitemeier
Editor: Ayala Bengad
Sound Designer: Shelly Bar-On
Music Composer: Avi Belleli
Production Company: Riva Films, United Channel Movies
World Sales Address: The Match Factory GmbH
Balthasarstr. 79-81 50670 Cologne / Germany
World Sales Phone: +49 221 539 709-0
World Sales Email: [email protected]
Yona follows the dramatic life story of legendary Israeli poet Yona Wallach.
A young woman from the countryside, orphaned by her father; making her first steps in
the realm of Hebrew poetry. It's the early sixties and Wallach's battle for recognition
takes place in a male-dominated environment. With her breakthrough and the
inevitable transition to the big city, Yona - constantly testing her own boundaries suffers from a mental breakdown. Her struggle to resume writing and attain
immortality in the canon of Hebrew poetry – the price she was willing to pay for that
immortality – is the film's main plotline.
Director’s Biography
Nir Bergman is an accomplished and respected Israeli film and
television director and writer. In 2002, Bergman made his feature
debut with Broken Wings, which he wrote and directed. Among its
many laurels, the film won the Grand Prix Award for Best Film at the
2002 Tokyo Festival and the Panorama Audience Award at the 2003
Berlin Festival. His second feature, Intimate Grammar, enjoyed great
success as well. Bergman was co-creator, co-writer and co-director in
the famous television series In Treatment that was bought and
adapted by HBO and is sold worldwide. This is his third feature film.
Festival/Awards:
Awards of the Isareli Film Academy
st
The 31 Hafia International Film Festival
Director’s Filmography
Broken Wings (2010)
Intimate Grammar (2002)
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Bharti Vidyapeeth
Presents
Sports and
Cinema
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2016
Sports & Cinema
Go For it! India
Chakde! India
2007 - 153’- Hindi - Colour - India
Director: Shimit Amin
Producer: Aditya Chopra, Yash Chopra
Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Vidya Malvade, Shilpa Shukla,
Sagarika Ghatge, Chitrashi Rawat etc.
Screenplay: Jaideep Sahni
Cinematographer: Sudeep Chatterjee
Editor: Amitabh Shukla
Sound Designer: Manas Choudhari
Music Composer: Salim - Sulaiman
Costume Designer: Mandira Shukla and Shiraz Siddique
Production Company: Yash Raj Films International Ltd.
Yash Raj Films
World Sales Address: Yash Raj Films Private Limited.
(Mumbai), 5, Shah Industrial Estate, Veera Desai Road,
Andheri (West), Mumbai 400 053, INDIA.
The film explores religious bigotry, the legacy of the partition of India, ethnic and regional
prejudice and sexism in contemporary India, in a fictional story about the Indian women's
national field-hockey team, which was inspired by the team's win at the 2002
Commonwealth Games. Kabir Khan is a former captain of the Indian men's national fieldhockey team. After a disastrous loss to Pakistan, Khan is ostracized from the sport and he
and his mother are driven from the family home by angry neighbors. Seven years later, to
redeem himself, Khan becomes the coach of the Indian national women's hockey team
and aims to turn its sixteen contentious players into a championship unit.
Director’s Biography
Amin was born in Kampala, Uganda but grew up in Florida, in the United
States. He graduated with a degree in mathematics from the University
of Florida. He is best known for the award winning film 'Chak De! India
(2007).
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World Sales Phone: +91 (22) 30613500
World Sales Email: [email protected]
403659920
Festival/Awards:
Annual Central European Bollywood Awards, India (2007)
Apsara Film Producers Guild Awards (2008)
Awards of the International Indian Film Academy (2008),
Filmfare Awards (2008)
Director’s Filmography
Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year (2009)
Ab Tak Chappan (2004)
2016
The Miracle of Bern
Das Wunder von Bern
2003 - 118’- German, Swiss German - Colour - Germany
Sport and Cinema
Director: Sönke Wortmann
Producer: Hanno Huth
Cast: Louis Klamroth, Peter Lohmeyer, Johanna Gastdorf
Screenplay: Sönke Wortmann, Rochus Hahn
Cinematographer: Tom Fährmann
Editor: Ueli Christen
Sound Designer: Dirk Jacob
Music Composer: Marcel Barsotti
Costume Designer: Ursula Welter
Production Designer: Uli Hanisch
Production Company: Little Shark Entertainment GmbH,
Senator Film Produktion, Seven Pictures
Festival/Awards:
Prix du Public UBS Locarno International Film Festival
(2003)
The movie deals with the championship-winning German soccer team of 1954. Its story is
linked with two others: The family of a young boy is split due to the events in World War II,
and the father returns from Russia after eleven years. His problems in getting back to
normal life are shown, with references to his children and wife. The second story is about a
reporter and his wife reporting from the tournament.
Director’s Biography
Sönke Wortmann is a German film director and producer. He studied
sociology before entering the University Of Television And Film Munich
to study film directing. After spending some time at the London Royal
College of Art he finished his career successfully.
Goldene Leinwand, Deutscher Filmpreis (2004) for Best
Picture (Silver)
German Film of the Year, German Actor of the Year (Peter
Lohmeyer), Bavarian Film Award (2004)
Director’s Filmography
Frau Müller muss weg! (2015)
Schoßgebete (2014)
Das Hochzeitsvideo (2012)
Pope Joan (2009)
The Hollywood Sign (2001)
St. Pauli Nacht (1999)
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2016
Lessons of A Dream
Der ganz große Traum
2011 - 105’- German, English - Colour - Germany
Sport and Cinema
Director: Sebastian Grobler
Producer: Anatol Nitschke, Raoul B. Reinert
Cast: Daniel Brühl, Burghart Klaußner, Thomas Thieme
Screenplay: Philipp Roth, Johanna Stuttmann
Cinematographer: Martin Langer
Editor: Dirk Grau
Sound Designer: Richard Borowski
Music Composer: Ingo Frenzel
Costume Designer: Monika Jacobs
Production Designer: Thomas Freudenthal
Production Company: Deutschfilm, Cuckoo Clock
Entertainment, Senator Film Produktion
Konrad Koch is hired to teach English at a strictly-run German school for boys. Koch sees
how badly this is needed in his very first class. Everything that the boys know about
England comes from prejudices handed down from one generation to the next. In order to
stir up some enthusiasm for the foreign language, Konrad Koch resorts to unusual means.
He introduces the boys to a sport, which he encountered while studying at Oxford: it is
called football. Unfortunately, Koch’s unconventional ways soon make him many
enemies: influential parents, local dignitaries and, above all, his colleagues, who only
believe in Prussian drills and discipline. They all want to get rid of Koch - but then his
students decide to take the initiative.
Director’s Biography
Sebastian Groble (1968) in Hamburg is a German filmmaker.
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Director’s Filmography
Morgen Früh Ist Die Nacht Rum (2003)
2016
Sports & Cinema
Iqbal
Iqbal
2005 - 132’- Hindi - Colour - India
Director: Nagesh Kukunoor
Producer: Subhash Ghai
Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Girish Karnad, Shreyas Talpade,
Shweta Prasad
Screenplay: Nagesh Kukunoor
Cinematographer: Sudeep Chatterjee
Editor: Sanjib Datta
Sound Designer: Namita Nayak
Music Composer: Salim Merchant, Suleiman Merchant
Costume Designer: Fabeha and Elahe Hiptoola
Production Designer: Devika Bahudhanam
Production Company: Mukta Searchlight Films
World Sales Address: Mukta Arts Ltd, 3rd Floor, Mukta
House, Behind Whistling Woods Institute, Filmcity,
Goregaon(E), Mumbai – 400065
This movie revolves around Iqbal, the deaf and mute son of a farmer. Iqbal has a passion
for the game of cricket and seeks the tutelage of washed-up, alcoholic ex-player. This film
depicts the trials and turbulence of Iqbal's life.
World Sales Phone: + 91 22 3364 9400
World Sales Email: [email protected]
Festival/Awards: Apsara Film Producers Guild Awards
(2006)
Awards of the International Indian Film Academy (2006)
Filmfare Awards (2006)
Director’s Biography
Nagesh Kukunoor (1967) is an Indian film director, producer,
screenwriter and actor known for his works predominantly in Bollywood
and Parallel cinema. He is known for films such as Hyderabad Blues
(1998), Rockford (1999), Iqbal (2005), Aashayein (2010), Lakshmi (2014)
and Dhanak (2015). He has received four International Awards and a
National Film Award for his works. In 2006, he has garnered the National
Film Award for Best Film on Other Social Issues, for directing Iqbal.
Director’s Filmography
Dhanak (2015)
Lakshmi (2014)
Mod (2011)
Aashayein (2010)
Rockford (1999)
Hyderabad Blues (1998)
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2016
Sports & Cinema
Lagaan: Once Upon A Time In India
Lagaan: Once Upon A Time In India
2001 - 224’- Hindi - Colour - India
Director: Ashutosh Gowariker
Producer: Aamir Khan
Cast: Aamir Khan, Gracy Singh, Kulbhushan Kharbanda,
Rachel Shelley, Raghuvir Yadav, Suhasini Mulay
Screenplay: Kumar Dave, Ashutosh Gowariker, Sanjay
Dayma
Cinematographer: Anil Mehta
Editor: Ballu Saluja
Sound Designer: Nakul Kamte
Music Composer: A.R. Rahman
Costume Designer: Bhanu Athaiya
Production Designer: Nitin Chandrakant Desai
Production Company: Aamir Khan Productions, Ashutosh
Gowariker Productions Pvt. Ltd. and JhamuSughand
Productions
This film is a story of The people of a small village in Victorian India stake and their future
on a game of cricket against the ruthless British rulers.
Festival/Awards:
Academy Awards, USA (2002)
Awards of the International Indian Film Academy (2002)
Bergen International Film Festival (2001)
Filmfare Awards (2002)
Leeds International Film Festival (2001)
Locarno International Film Festival (2001)
Director’s Biography
Ashutosh Gowariker (1964) is an Indian film director, actor, writer and
producer. He is known for directing the films "set on a huge canvas while
boasting of an opulent treatment". His works include Lagaan (2001),
Swades (2004), Jodhaa Akbar (2008), What's Your Raashee (2009) and
Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey (2010). He also became a voting member for
the Academy Awards in 2005.
Director’s Filmography
Khelenge Hum Jee Jaan Sey (2010)
What's Your Rashee? (2009)
Jodhaa Akbar (2008)
Swades (2004)
Baazi (1995)
Pehla Nasha (1993)
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2016
Sport and Cinema
Paan Singh Tomar
Paan Singh Tomar
2012 - 135’- Hindi - Colour - India
Director: Tigmanshu Dhulia
Producer: Ronnie Screwvala, Siddharth Roy Kapur, Rucha,
Pathak and Ajay Rai
Cast: Irrfan Khan, Ravi Bhushan Bhartiya, Mahie Gill
Screenplay: Sanjay Chauhan, Tigmanshu Dhulia
Cinematographer: Aseem Mishra
Editor: Aarti Bajaj
Sound Designer: Sushant Amin, Faisal Majeed
Music Composer: Abhishek Ray
Costume Designer: Namratha Jani, Sachin Lovalekar
Production Company: UTV Spotboy
Festival/Awards:
Filmfare Awards (2013)
National Film Awards, India (2013)
The story of Paan Singh Tomar, an Indian athlete and seven-time national steeplechase
champion who becomes one of the most feared dacoits in Chambal Valley after his
retirement.
Director’s Biography
Tigmanshu Dhulia (1967) is an Indian film director, actor, screenwriter,
and casting director. Dil Se, for which he wrote the screenplay, was the
first Hindi movie to chart in the UK top ten. He is known for Haasil
(2003), Paan Singh Tomar (2012) and Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster Returns
(2013).
Times of India Film Awards (2013)
Zee Cine Awards (2013)
Director’s Filmography
Bullett Raja (2013)
Sahib, Biwi Aur Gangster Returns (2013)
Sahib, Biwi Aur Gangster (2011)
Shagird (2011)
Charas: A Joint Effort (2004)
Haasil (2003)
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Latin American culture is in many ways similar to Indian culture: these are multi-ethnic societies with
ancient civilizations; with people trying to find how to live and love in modern times, under pressures from
families, religion and their emerging economies. So it is but natural that their films talk about themes that
are contemporary in India, and in many other parts of the world. These are universal stories of youth,
rebellion, isolation and human bonding. And yet, they bring something unique to Cinema: because Latin
America is steeped in a culture where Magic Realism reigns; where political upheavals and crime are a part
of daily life; and yet, this is also a culture that has a passion for colour, music and imagery as if life depended
on it. This heady combination creates a unique kind of cinema that dazzles with passion, and shows the rest
of the world what it is like to live in the twenty-first century.
Bharat Forge
Presents
Latin
America
2016
Latin America
Behind You
A Tus Espaldas
2011 - 76’- - Colour, B&W - Ecuador
Director: Tito Jara
Producer: Roberto Aguirre
Cast: Jenny Nava, Gabino Torres, Lily Alejandra, Israel
Montenegro
Cinematographer: Alvaro Duran
Editor: Julián Coraggio
Sound Designer: Pablo Aguinaga
Music Composer: Pablo Aguinaga, Luis Villamarin
World Sales Address: Embassy of Eucador
This is the story of Jorge Chicaiza Cisneros (Jordi), a young man working at a bank in Quito
and whose main concern in life is to forget and hide his humble origins in the poor
neighborhoods of the south city and his mestizo racial reality.
Director’s Biography
Tito Jara is a writer and director.
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Director’s Filmography
Behind you (2011)