foreign movies screening at the 31st Fajr international film festival
these are foreign (non iranian) movies that screened on the 31st Fajr international film festival, held on February 2013.
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- DirectorJiahuang PengPeng ChenStarsAnamulingXiwen CaoYifei ChenThis film follows a 7-year-old boy, Wawa, and his older sister, Naxiang, who live beside the Nujiang River in Yunnan Province, China. Every day, Naxiang crosses the river to attend school using an overhead cable, but their mother will not allow Wawa to use the cable. Eventually, Wawa secretly uses the cable to cross to the other side, and the siblings' lives are changed forever.
- DirectorKrzysztof KrauzeStarsKrystyna FeldmanRoman GancarczykJerzy GudejkoStory of the last eight years of life of Nikifor Krynicki, famous "naive artist".
- DirectorLech MajewskiStarsRutger HauerMichael YorkCharlotte RamplingThis movie focuses on a dozen of the five hundred characters depicted in Bruegel's painting. The theme of Christ's suffering is set against religious persecution in Flanders in 1564.
- DirectorKrzysztof ZanussiStarsZbigniew ZapasiewiczKrystyna JandaTadeusz BradeckiA cynical doctor, who is dying of cancer, would like to know the meaning of his life. He has to fight for it or just get ready for death.
- DirectorXiaolu XueStarsJet LiZhang WenGwei Lun-MeiExplores the subject of parental love and autism in kids.
- DirectorMartin DonovanStarsMartin DonovanDavid MorseOlivia WilliamsA playwright whose marriage and career are in a free fall has an explosive run-in with his former neighbor, a right-wing ex-con.
- DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsJodie FosterKate WinsletChristoph WaltzTwo pairs of parents hold a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a fight, though as their time together progresses, increasingly childish behavior throws the discussion into chaos.
- DirectorCai NingStarsHaburaRenhua NaTumenbayaer
- DirectorXiaogang FengStarsDaoming ChenChen LiYi LuThe epic story of a family separated as a result of the Great Tangshan Earthquake of 1976.
- DirectorChao-Bin SuJohn WooStarsMichelle YeohJung Woo-sungXueqi WangDrizzle/Zeng Jing tries to start a new life after she had betrayed her gang and hid the remains of monk.
- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsJean-Louis TrintignantEmmanuelle RivaIsabelle HuppertGeorges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
- DirectorKatsuhito IshiiStarsSatoshi TsumabukiMasatoshi NagaseYasuko MatsuyukiThis live-action film adaptation of Shohei Manabe's Smuggler manga is not to be missed! Ryosuke Kinuta is a failed actor with big time debts. His loan shark scores him a gig smuggling dead bodies struck down by gangland hits, but getting caught in the middle of a violent mob war could prove hazardous to his health.
- DirectorSaïd Ould KhelifaStarsImad BenchenniKhaled BenaïssaAbdelkader DjeriouAlgeria's entry for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, "Zabana" chronicles the life of Ahmed Zabana, a man who fought for Algerian freedom in the Battle of Algiers. This film chronicles Zabana's fight to free his country to independence, and his death at the hands of French authorities.
- DirectorDjamila SahraouiStarsDjamila SahraouiSamir YahiaAli ZarifUne petite maison abandonnée, isolée dans la campagne algérienne. Ouardia y a enterré son fils Tarik, militaire peut-être tué par son propre frère Ali, dirigeant dun maquis islamiste. Elle est surveillée par un des hommes dAli, amputé dun bras suite à une explosion. Dans cet univers crispé par la douleur et figé par la sécheresse, la vie va peu à peu reprendre ses droits. Grâce au jardin que Ouardia fera refleurir à force de courage, de travail et dobstination. Grâce au gardien, victime lui aussi, finalement adopté par Ouardia. Grâce surtout à larrivée entre eux de lenfant de Malia, une femme aimée des deux frères, morte en accouchant. Mais Ouardia nest pas au bout de ses épreuves. Ali, le fils maudit, revient, grièvement blessé
- DirectorMoussa TouréStarsSouleymane Seye NdiayeLaïty FallMalaminé 'Yalenguen' DraméA group of African men leave Senegal in a pirogue captained by a local fisherman to undertake the treacherous crossing of the Atlantic to Spain where they believe better lives and prospects are waiting for them.
- DirectorKoutaiba Al-JanabiStarsSadik Al-AttarJasim Al-TimimiRang OmarLeaving Baghdad is a road movie that follows Sadik, the personal cameraman to the leader Saddam Hussein, at the end of the nineties. Sadik is trying to escape the grip of the regime, being pursued from country to country, encountering smugglers and crooks on his journey. Sadik suffers from paranoia and constant fear. The Iraqi secret police are after him because he is carrying evidence of the atrocities committed by the regime. Sadik is dreaming to go to London, to join his wife who is, however, unwilling to help. In his despair and loneliness, Sadik writes letters to his son, Semir. These letters turn into a confession and reveal Sadik's past and the real reason for his fleeing , the endless waiting and his paranoia.
- DirectorFatma Zohra ZamoumStarsNourdine AlaneLouiza HabaniNadjia Laaraf-DebbahiAlgiers, nowadays, Adel, 8 years old, has been taken to his grandparents Khadidja and Lounès because his parents Rachid and Safia have been quarreling. Adel was supposed to stay with his grandparents for one week end ; then another week begins and he misses school; then he feels that he has lived there for ever. Khadidja, a house wife, will try to introduce Adel to her everyday life in her apartment and Lounès, a retired man, will introduce him to the great world of animals. From day to day, the child and his grandmother hold on to the question "how big is your love" to help them get through this difficult period and grow closer to each other.
- DirectorHala LotfyStarsDonia MaherSalma Al-NaggarAhmad LutfiThose who have fully enjoyed their bodies cannot be submissive. And those who never have? Can they survive the slavery of solitude and impotent acceptance of what they can't change or embrace? This is the every day story of two women taking care of their sick man.
- DirectorBijukumar DamodaranStarsGovardhan B.KMaster GovardhanAmala PaulColor of sky is a movie about the relationship of man, nature and life.
- DirectorKarzan KaderStarsZamand TahaSarwar FazilDiya MariwanThe story is about two brothers want to travel to america and the adventures that they face in the journey.
- DirectorYeong-sun KwonStarsDong-hwi JangKim Hee-raJeong-im Nam
- DirectorDorota KedzierzawskaStarsOleg RybaYevgeniy RybaAkhmed SardalovThree young boys, who live on the mean streets of Ukraine, embark on an journey to cross the border into Poland.
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsAndrzej ChyraMaja OstaszewskaArtur ZmijewskiAn examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
- DirectorDorota KedzierzawskaStarsDanuta SzaflarskaKrzysztof GlobiszMarta WalderaWhen the witty old lady Aniela finally gets rid of her last lodger, she thinks it's finally time for her to feel at home in her beautiful old wooden house. But her greedy son and neighbours have other plans.
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsJerzy RadziwilowiczKrystyna JandaMarian OpaniaA few years after the events of Man of Marble (1977), a journalist investigates Mateusz Birkut's son Maciek Tomczyk, now an activist leading a shipyard strike.