IFFI Goa 2015, Festival Diary, IV
IFFI Goa 2015, Festival Diary, IV
At IFFI, the grand prizes are called the Golden Peacock and Silver Peacock, although India’s national bird is far from either golden or silver in colour, and the décor at the venue this year is derived from various shades of blue, including violet and purple. A total of 15 films have been short-listed in the International Competition Section, two of them India, both from the Eastern state of West Bengal.
Here’s the list:
1. 3000 NIGHTS
Directed by Mai Masri
A Palestine, France, Jordan, and Lebanon co-production: Arabic, Hebrew
2. EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT
Ciro Guerra
Colombia,Venezuela, Argentina: Spanish , Portuguese , German, Catalan, Latin (Thank God for sub-titles)
3. ENCLAVE
Goran Radovanovic
Serbia/Germany; Serbian
4. FILOSOFI KOPI
Angga Dwimas Sasongko
Indonesia: Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia, where Filosofi is, quite simply, Philosophy, and Kopi is coffee)
5. JOURNEY TO THE SHORE
Kiyoshi Kurosawa (absolutely not related to Akira Kurosawa)
Japan, France: Japanese
6. KAPO IN JERUSALEM
Uri Barbash
7. LABYRINTH OF LIES
Giulio Ricciarelli
Germany: German
8. EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO
Peter Greenaway
Netherlands/Mexico: English, Spanish
9. THE MAN WHO BECAME A HORSE
Amir-Hossein Saghafi
Iran: Farsi (Persian)
10. THE MEASURE OF A MAN (‘La loi du marche’ in original French, so the title has not been literally translated)
Stephane Brize
France: French
11. MUSTANG
Deniz Gamze Erguven
Turkey: Turkish
12. RAMS
Grimur Hakonarson
Iceland: Icelandic
13. SEALED CARGO
Julia Vargas
Bolivia, Mexico, Venezuela: Spanish
14. NATOKER MOTO
Based on life of actress Late Kheya Chakroborty.
Debesh Chatterjee
India: Bengali
15. CINEMAWALA
An ode to the dying institution of the single-screen cinema theatres that have made way for digital multiplexes.
Kaushik Ganguly (2010 Silver Peacock winner for Arekti Premer Golpo, 2013 Best Director for Apur Panchali)
India: Bengali
Assessing these films and picking the best of the lot will be a five-member jury, comprising:
i) Shekhar Kapur, India, director, Chairperson
ii) Michael Radford, UK, director
iii) Julia Jentsch, Germany, actress
iv) Suha Arraf, Israel based Palestinian filmmaker
v) Jeon Kyu-Hwan, South Korea, director