C.I.C.A.E. Directors' Fortnight
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- DirectorBuddhadev DasguptaStarsPawan MalhotraM.V. Vasudeva RaoArchanaBagh Bahadur is a 1989 Bengali drama film directed and written by Buddhadev Dasgupta. The film is about a man who paints himself as a tiger and dances in a village in Bengal. The movie conveys a strong message as it illustrates the hardships of rural village life in Bengal.
- DirectorÁrpád SopsitsStarsZoltán LengyelJudit DanyiLajos Kovács
- DirectorThaddeus O'SullivanStarsDonal McCannSaskia ReevesCiarán HindsAt the beginning of the 20th century, a young servant provokes an independent Irish farm community by her relationship with two brothers. Pregnant, she refuses to reveal the name of the father.
- DirectorKeith McNallyStarsEric MitchellAudrey MatsonNathalie DevauxDue to a domestic accident, a quiet and simple man will undergo drastic personality disorder changes, which will takes him to explore underground New York nightclubs.
- DirectorFérid BoughedirStarsSelim BoughedirMustapha AdouaniRabiah Ben-AbdullahNoura struggles to reconcile two worlds, Muslim women and men, while also dealing with his own sexuality.
- DirectorPeeter SimmStarsKatri HormaMari SimmTõnu KilgasA young Estonian voice actress' life from the turbulent 1930's to the devastating March deportation of 1949.
- DirectorGeorgi DjulgerovStarsRadena ValkanovaSamuel FinziDesislava KarushkovaA hot summer in the middle of the 50's. A pioneer's camp. 12 years old Dimana and Todor, while being on a guard of honor at a giant monument of Stalin, experience their first kiss. Literally, Stalin's shadow shelters them but figuratively, it separates them. They face their first moral disillusionment. 10 years later they meet in the same place. Todor is now a promising party functionary, sent to crush a students' riot at a summer working brigade. Dimana has managed to preserve her beliefs and integrity. This time their love has no inhibitions. But following his assignment, Todor succeeds in cheating the rebels and detaining them forcibly in the camp. The only one who refuses to obey is Dimana. The only path for her in a world like this is now to escape in search for freedom but she has to burn all bridges behind her in the process.
- DirectorYuri IlyenkoStarsViktor SolovyovLyudmila EfimenkoPylyp IllienkoThis film tells what it was like to live in the USSR with brutal reality. A convict is forced to hide within a model of a hammer and sickle. Here a tragic romance ensues between the convict and woman worker.
- DirectorNikolay VolevStarsIrini JambonasHristo ShopovRashko MladenovMargarit and Margarita are high school senior students. They are madly in love. And so proud and independent that they are often in trouble with their parents and teachers. They quit school to live life their own way, only to face a world or corruption and brutality. Margarit would make no compromise and would not get involved in a game with shady rules. Margarita is more willing to do so in the name of their future together. A big manager takes her under his wing and shows himself to be a corrupt womanizer. Margarit cannot stand the debauchery of their 'protector' and kills him. After his sentence he puts an end to his life and unable to live her life this way, so does Margarita.
- DirectorWhit StillmanStarsCarolyn FarinaEdward ClementsChris EigemanA group of young upper-class Manhattanites are blithely passing through the gala debutante season, when an unusual outsider joins them and stirs them up.
- DirectorChristopher MorahanStarsPaul McGannAmanda DonohoeFrederick TrevesA lowly hospital orderly impersonates a recently deceased doctor and goes to work in the busy ER of a small hospital where he meets and befriends a nurse who slowly figures out his secret and helps him maintain his charade.
- DirectorIgor MinaievStarsEvgeniya DobrovolskayaMaksim KiselyovNikolai TokarSerguei, young guardian, falls in love with the sensual Nadia while she is stopped by the militia. They meet again a month later, Nadia leads the shy Sergei to her home and teaches her love. The seasons pass, Serguei is more and more in love and Nadia does not get tired.
- DirectorPere PortabellaStarsCarme EliasFrancisco GuijarJordi DauderA female professor, a writer, and an orchestra conductor -three characters, two couples- attend a grand literary cocktail party. The writer has just won the prize for his book "Warsaw Bridge". The winner answers the journalist's questions one after another, but he is unable to come up with a synthesis of the plot of his book. They will simply have to read it.
- DirectorGianni AmelioStarsGian Maria VolontèEnnio FantastichiniRenato CarpentieriA principled judge faces a case that society demands capital punishment for.
- DirectorAlain MazarsStarsXiaochuan SongPing RuJiaqing DingYen Yuejun works as a truck driver in Mongolia and marries Ling Ling but his love for her has to be sacrificed because of his passion for Chinese opera.
- DirectorFumiki WatanabeStarsFumiki WatanabeTsugiko Watanabe
- DirectorSuzanne OstenStarsPia BäckströmMalin EkEtienne GlaserIn a fictional country, around 1912, student are rioting. There are cries for democracy and to overthrow of the old regime. The revolt is brutally downcast by the regime's forces. The leader of the rebellion is arrested.
- DirectorCharles BurnettStarsDanny GloverPaul ButlerDeVaughn NixonA charismatic old acquaintance drifts into town, stirring up trouble for a mild-mannered family.
- DirectorGoran PaskaljevicStarsPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicDragan MaksimovicMirjana KaranovicIn September 1945, a fire burns down the school and the new Communist authorities get into the church, hang the flag of the Communist Party, and paint over frescoes--which miraculously restore themselves.
- DirectorFrancesca ComenciniStarsDelphine ZinggFrançois MarthouretJean-Claude AdelinA girl unhappy in a relationship with a much older man decides to try having an affair with a male friend of her best girlfriend.
- DirectorGiovanna GagliardoStarsChristine BoissonEnnio FantastichiniFiorenza MarchegianiOn June 30, 1990, in Rome, Marie Christine is getting ready to take her son Pietro and Paolo to their father for the weekend. As the Football World Cup is taking place in Italy, Rome is flooded with supporters; the traffic is chaotic and French-born Marie Christine, who works as a translator, finds a bag that belongs to Miriam, who must leave the next day. Marie Christine decides to find her to return her passport, but one Giuliano Ferrini tries to prevent this. So Marie Christine finds herself navigating through a hot Roman night in a city she doesn't know, among people she never dreamed could inhabit the same city.
- DirectorMaría NovaroStarsMaría RojoCarmen SalinasTito VasconcelosJulia (Rojo) is a phone operator in Mexico City who divides her time between her job, her daughter and the danzon: a cuban dance very popular in Mexico and Central America. Every wednesday Julia does the danzon with Carmelo (Rergis) in the old "Salon Colonia". They've danced for years but barely know each other. One night Carmelo disappears without a trace. Feeling lonely and sad, Julia takes a train to Veracruz, where she knows Carmelo has a brother. That sudden trip will change Julia's life forever.
- DirectorZsolt Kézdi-KovácsStarsAndrás KozákLászló MensárosLili MonoriLeaving his family behind after a conflict with his colleagues, a leading editor at Hungary's state television network travels alone to his country house in the Badacsony region, and reflects on his past, his guilt and the old compromises.
- DirectorLefteris XanthopoulosStarsGiorgos NiniosKostas KazakosDora MasklavanouIn early 1950s Athens, an idealist shadow player, after forty years of dedicated work, witnesses the end of an era and the demise of his once popular art with the arrival of cinema.