37. Istanbul Film Festivali (2018)
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- DirectorAndrew HaighStarsCharlie PlummerAmy SeimetzTravis FimmelA teenager gets a summer job working for a horse trainer and befriends the fading racehorse, Lean on Pete.
- DirectorSavi GabizonStarsElla ArmonyShai AviviShmil Ben AriA middle-aged Israeli bachelor is forced to evaluate his life choices when he discovers an ex-girlfriend had given birth to his son 20 years before, in this affecting drama from writer director Savi Gabizon.
- DirectorAndré TéchinéStarsPierre DeladonchampsCéline SalletteGrégoire Leprince-RinguetBased on a true story, a soldier deserts during WWI and dresses as a woman to escape the law. This triggers upheavals in his sexual behaviour and couple.
- DirectorSaskia BoddekeStarsPeter GreenawayPip GreenawaySaskia BoddekeAn intimate portrait of painter and filmmaker Peter Greenaway, directed by his wife Saskia Boddeke. Together with his daughter Pip, Greenaway formulates an alphabet that represents his personality and thoughts about art and life.
- DirectorTeemu NikkiStarsMatti OnnismaaJari VirmanHannamaija NikanderA man who euthanizes animals as a side job runs afoul of a white supremacist.
- DirectorStephen Nomura SchibleStarsYellow Magic OrchestraRyuichi SakamotoA portrait of genius music composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.
- DirectorFelipe HirschStarsJavier DrolasCarla QuevedoAlfredo CastroA melancholic, aspiring writer and bookseller is shaken by the appearances and disappearances of his newfound muse who steals books from his bookstore. Soon he discovers that she steals in other bookstores as well, and is consumed with jealousy. He starts to live in a kind of loving delirium, on the border between fiction and reality, but the closer he gets to her, the more indescribable she becomes: Why does she steal and what are her values? Who is the older man she lives with? Will he accept this man who occupies his space? What is true or apocryphal in this story? And, in the end, will he conquer a place in her life as he moves away from his own?
- DirectorMarcelo MartinessiStarsNorma CodasMargarita IrunAna BrunMarcelo Martinessi's stunning debut The Heiresses is an immersive and emotionally compelling look into the lives of the privileged, through the tribulations of a hesitant woman in quiet crisis.
- DirectorHafsteinn Gunnar SigurðssonStarsSteinþór Hróar SteinþórssonEdda BjörgvinsdóttirSigurður SigurjónssonWhen Baldwin and Inga's next door neighbours complain that a tree in their backyard casts a shadow over their sundeck, what starts off as a typical spat between neighbours in the suburbs unexpectedly and violently spirals out of control.
- DirectorArshad KhanUsing family archives and animation, Arshad Khan shares a deeply personal story of migration from Pakistan to Canada, self-discovery and familial reconciliation.
- DirectorVahid JalilvandStarsNavid MohammadzadehAmir AghaeeHediyeh TehraniWhen Dr. Kaveh Nariman, a forensic pathologist, comes to work he encounters a corpse that looks familiar.
- DirectorJan ZabeilStarsAlexander FehlingBérénice BejoArian MontgomeryAaron wants to become a family with his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son, but high up in the Italian Dolomites, his attempts to win the boy's acceptance turn into a dangerous power game.
- DirectorEvan JohnsonGalen JohnsonGuy MaddinStarsRock HudsonKarl MaldenChuck NorrisDirector Guy Maddin's interpretation of the Alfred Hitchcock classic Vertigo, pieced together using footage from old films and television shows shot in and around the San Francisco area.
- DirectorDamon CardasisStarsMichaela Jaé (MJ) RodriguezIndya MooreMargot BinghamA 14 year-old-boy, struggling with gender identity and religion, begins to use fantasy to escape his life in the inner city and find his passion in the process.
- DirectorCédric KahnStarsAnthony BajonDamien ChapelleAlex BrendemühlThomas is a drug addict. In an effort to put an end to his habit, he joins a community of former addicts who live isolated in the mountains and use prayer as a way to cure themselves.
- DirectorErnesto DaranasStarsTomás CaoHéctor NoasRon PerlmanA Russian cosmonaut is stranded on The Mir Space Station during the collapse of the Soviet Union.
- DirectorCorneliu PorumboiuStarsLaurentiu GinghinaCorneliu PorumboiuThey talk about the beautiful game, but for Laurentiu Ginghina, it's not enough. Football must be modified, streamlined, freed from restraints; corners are to be rounded off, players assigned to zones and subteams, norms revised. In retrospect, he first realized that the rules of football were wrong when he was tackled during a game in his youth, in the summer holidays, on another pitch now covered in snow, but in Vaslui, not Bucharest. The tackle hit so hard it fractured his fibula, a year later his tibia broke too, on New Year's Eve 1987, he had to walk home in the snow and no one helped him. Today he's a local bureaucrat with an uninspiring job, it's no wonder he prefers to talk about the game, his own version of it, to Porumboiu, his friend, the director, who's always listening, asking questions, nearly always in frame. Ginghina's monologues are so rich you might think someone wrote them in advance, they proceed from the same old subject, but never stay in one place. All roads lead to football, but all roads lead away from it too, to land ownership issues, to orange farms in Florida, to political utopia and the traces left by life, to version 2.0, 3.1, 4.7, to infinity.
- DirectorFernando E. SolanasThe filmmaker's journey across seven Argentine provinces, investigating the social and environmental consequences of the transgenic agricultural model with agricultural toxins. Today, in order to keep up with larger export quantities, it produces grains, meat and food with pesticides and chemicals.
- DirectorAndrea PallaoroStarsCharlotte RamplingAndré WilmsStéphanie Van VyveIntimate portrait of a woman drifting between reality and denial when she is left alone to grapple with the consequences of her husband's imprisonment.
- DirectorAleksey German Jr.StarsMilan MaricDanila KozlovskiyHelena SujeckaThe film actions unfold in 1971, telling about the four days of life of famous writer Sergei Dovlatov. The film raises the eternal issue of the Russian and European culture - the issue of moral choice.
- DirectorÉric CaravacaStarsAngela CaravacaGilberto CaravacaOlivier CaravacaFrench actor Éric Caravaca confronts a mystery what happened to his parents' first child, Christine, who died at age three in Algeria before the director was born?
- DirectorRoberto De PaolisStarsSelene CaramazzaSimone LiberatiBarbora BobulovaAgnese and Stefano are profoundly different. She is only seventeen, lives with her mother (a harsh but devoted woman and a regular church-goer) and is about to take a vow of chastity to last until marriage. He is a 25 year old man, with a violent temper and a difficult past behind, who works as a warden in a car park that borders with a gypsy camp. Their unexpected meeting engenders a sentiment of purity, made of little stolen moments and mutual help. But when they make love for the first time, Agnese s illusion of purity is shattered. She experiences a deep sense of betrayal towards her ideals, which leads her to take an extreme decision in the hope of erasing her sin.
- DirectorMuayad AlayanStarsAdeeb SafadiSivane KretchnerIshai GolanThe affair of a married Palestinian man and a married Israeli woman in Jerusalem takes a dangerous political dimension when they are spotted in the wrong place at the wrong time, leaving them to deal with more than their broken marriages.
- DirectorMalgorzata SzumowskaStarsMateusz KosciukiewiczAgnieszka PodsiadlikMalgorzata GorolA man undergoes a face transplant and experiences ensuing identity issues.
- DirectorAnahí BerneriStarsSofía Gala CastiglioneDante Della PaoleraDana BassoA young Buenos Aires mother finds employment as a sex worker and struggles to live under the same laws that are supposed to protect her.