DIRECTOR’S FORTNIGHT 2012 COMPETION: GANGS OF WASSEYPUR
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CRITIC’S WEEK 2012 COMPETITION: PEDDLERS
NEWS
BACHELORETTE
Directed by Leslye HEADLAND
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL / OUT OF COMPETITION
Three cynical best friends since high school, Regan, Gena and Katie, are outraged to learn their chubby but sweet friend Becky is going to be the first of the gang to get married. Gena and Katie are still single, Regan has been pressuring her boyfriend of four years, Frank, to propose. When Becky asks neurotic Regan to help plan the wedding and be the Maid of honour, she is furious. Six months later, the day before the wedding, resentfull Regan is bossing around staff and guests, while Katie and Gena are ready to party. Everything starts going wrong. While they try to drown their sorrows at the bar, they run into Gena’s high school sweetheart Clyde. They still have feelings for each other. Then, during rehearsal dinner, things start going awry when Gena drunkenly gives a toast mentioning Becky’s high school bulimia. When Katie forgets to cancel a stripper she hired for the bachelorette party, the bride ends up furious and tells the 3 friends not to come to the wedding ceremony unless they are sober and behave like adults. Nevertheless, the girls decide to make the most of the night and they get on a wild ride down the road to this matrimony.
FAREWELL MY QUEEN
Directed by Benoit JACQUOT
BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL / IN COMPETITION / Opening Film
July 1789. At the dawn of the French Revolution, as turmoil brews in Paris, Versailles carries on, careless and unworried, as if isolated from the rest of the world. Sidonie Laborde, the Queen’s young reader, carefree and entirely devoted, takes full advantage of the intimate moments…
PAINLESS
Directed by Juan Carlos MEDINA
IN POST PRODUCTION
Spain, 1931. Somewhere in the Pyrénées near the French border, children were born with an unknown disease. They are insensitive to physical pain and grow up with a deranged perception of human values and the world around them. These children are aggressive and violent, going as far as to even hurt themselves. They are an uncontrollable danger, not only for themselves but for everybody around them as well.
NEW KIDS NITRO
Directed by Steffen HAARS & Flip VAN DER KUIL
COMING SOON
MORE SPECTACULAR, MORE RUDE, MORE FUNNY !
«After New Kids Turbo’s record breaking success in the Netherlands and Germany and it’s unqualified success at Fantastic Fest 2011, what more could the New Kids ask for? A sequel of course!
It features the New Kids battling a rival town full of idiots, drag racing, zombies, and really bad hair.
The film is the sequel to New Kids Turbo and directed by the creators and protagonists Steffen Haars and Flip van der Kuil.»
YOUNG AND WILD (Jove...
Directed by Marialy RIVAS
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL / WORLD CINEMA SCREENWRITING AWARD, DRAMATIC
BERLIN – GENERATION
Daniela is a 17 year old girl, raised in the bosom of a very strict Evangelic family. Rebel by nature she will try to follow the « right path » after being unmasked as a fornicator by her shocked parents.
A.C.A.B (All Cops Ar...
Directed by Stefano SOLLIMA Inspiredby the book ACAB by Carlo BONINI Synopsis The film is inspired by the book ACAB by Carlo Bonini – published in Italy by Giulio Einaudi Editore – which tells a true story. ACAB stands for « All Cops Are Bastards », a slogan first used in England [...]
28 HOTEL ROOMS
Directed by Matt ROSS
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2012 / NEXT
While traveling for work in a city far from their homes, a novelist and a corporate accountant find themselves in bed together. Although she’s married, and he’s seeing someone, their intense attraction turns a one-night stand into an unexpected relationship and a respite from the obligations of daily life. Through a series of moments—some profound, some silly, some intensely intimate—we see a portrait of an evolving relationship that could become the most significant one of their lives.
The film adeptly illustrates how seemingly inconsequential moments and actions can often mean more than we suspect.
BLACK ROCK
Directed by Katie ASELTON (The Freebie)
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2012 / MIDNIGHT SCREENING
A trio of childhood friends reunite for a camping trip on a woodsy getaway off the coast of Maine. Sarah, the group’s peacekeeper, tricks Abby and Lou into spending time together after a tricky romantic mishap drove a wedge between them. Bad blood appears to subside, but its relevance dissolves in the face of a much larger problem: when the group runs into a war veteran they know from high school, a nighttime hangout session turns sour and the women of «black rock» have to confront something far more dangerous-and heavily armed- than their feelings.
GANGS OF WASSEYPUR – GOW
Directed by Anurag KASHYAP (Dev D, Gulaal)
Synopsis
GOW, a film in two parts, tells a story of vengeance between two families that spans more than 60 years. It begins towards the end of colonial rule in India. Shahid Khan loots British trains, impersonating his rival, the legendary Sultana Daku. He becomes an outcast, and starts working at Ramadhir Singh’s colliery, only to set in motion a revenge battle that passes from generation to generation. Shahid’s son, the philandering Sardar Khan, vows to regain father’s honor, becoming the most feared man in Wasseypur. In contemporary times, the weed-addicted grandson, Faizal Khan, wakes up to this vengeance that his family has inherited. Staying true to its real-life roots, the film explores its revenge saga through the socio-political dynamic of erstwhile Bihar, North India, amongst the coal mining and scrap trade mafia of Wasseypur, a place obsessed with mainstream ‘Bollywood’ cinema.
PEDDLERS
Directed by Vasan BALA
Synopsis
PEDDLERS follows the intersecting lives of three social outcasts in Mumbai, leading eventually to love and its destruction. The first is aNarcotics Control Bureau officer who is forced to live a lie due to intimacy issues arising from physical problems. Determined to be seen as a playboy in spite of his condition, he is in love with his married neighbor but a relationship seems impossible and this leads to an explosion of frustration…
The second is a terminally ill Bangladeshi immigrant who has come to Mumbai to work as a “mule” (human carrier) to make enough money to pay for medical treatment and take care of her child back home. For her too, the question of love arises, but will she give in or betray it? Whatever it takes to survive …
The last is a young boy whose mistaken notions of rebellion and freedom have driven him from the comforts of his upper middle-class home into Mumbai’s dark and dangerous underbelly. An innocent, he drifts without purpose until he meets the woman – frail, lost, mysterious yet beautiful. She’s not his type at all, he’s sure of that, but he can’t let her go …
MAY IN THE SUMMER
Directed by Cherien DABIS (Amreeka)
SHOOTING: SUMMER 2012
A dramatic comedy set in Jordan where ancient tradition, burgeoning modernity and Western imitation collide, MAY IN THE SUMMER follows the secrets, lies and loves of three Arab American sisters and their strong-willed, single mom.
MAX
Directed by Stéphanie MURAT (Victoire)
POST PRODUCTION
Max is an urban romantic comedy, the story of a 6 years old little girl who never got to know her mum and who lives together with her childish father Toni, who loves her above everything. His goal is to spoil Max no matter what it takes but without using too much effort. Everyday he tells her how great life is despite their marginality, and he almost gets to believe it. Max does the same by plunging him permanently into the eternel world of childhood.Everything changes the day Max meets hooker Rose and she decides to make a special christmas gift to her father… and herself: a woman for Christmas eve. So that “she can take care of him” because “he needs it”. By doing so the little girl also gets a feminine presence around that she badly needs in their harsh environment. For the first time in her life Rose feels that she means something to somebody. She needs this little girl and her love badly.Toni sees the arrival of this woman in their lives as an intruder at first but he slowly realizes that it makes his daughter feel good and he starts having feelings for her too.Will these characters, broken and deceived by life, be able to start a new life with one another?
