Films to watch at MAMI's 13th Mumbai Film Festival (MFF)
MAMI's 13th MFF begins on 13th October, 2011, in Mumbai, at Cinemax, and other venues. During the week-long festival more than 200 films are expected to be screened in its various sections. Most of the festival delegates find it difficult to decide what films to watch and what to skip and the festival catalogue gets too cumbersome and complicated for many to peruse. You cannot watch all the films in the festival anyway. Even if you watch four or five films in a day, you hit a maximum score of 28 or 35.
Here is a Khullamkhulla guide to plan your screenings. You may find it useful. We have not gone by the festival’s official menu like Competition, Above The Cut, Indian Frame, World Cinema, and Real Reel in this listing and have created our own user-friendly menu. We have also excluded the various retrospectives, Dimensions Mumbai, Celebrating Age, and the Cannes Critics Week sections from the purview of this exercise. You have some of the titles highlighted. Those are the must watch recommendations by us. You can refer to the screening schedule of the festival at the festival’s official site (http://www.mumbaifilmfest.com) to mark the dates and time of the screeenings of these films.
Starry Hollywood/Art Combos
1. MONEYBALL by Bennett Miller (USA / 2011/Venice/Toronto) Opening Film 2. DOLPHIN TALE by Charles Martin Smith (USA / 2011) Closing Film 3. WRECKED by Michael Greenspan (USA / 2011) 4. DARK TIDE by John Stockwell (USA-South Africa / 2011) 5. ANOTHER EARTH by Mike Cahill (USA / 2011) 6. ONE LIFE by Mike Gunton, Martha Holmes (UK / 2011) 7. MARGIN CALL by J. C. Chandor (USA / 2010/Cannes) 8. JESUS HENRY CHRIST by Dennis Lee (USA / 2011)
Entertainment/Art Combos
1.THE ARTIST by Michel Hazanavicius (France/2011/Cannes Best Actor) 2.MY BEST ENEMY by Wolfgang Murnberger (Austria-Luxemburg/2011/Berlin) 3.ALMANYA by Yasemin Samdereli (Germany/2011/Berlin) 4.CHINESE TAKE AWAY by Sebastian Borensztein (Aregentina/2011) 5.WE HAVE A POPE by Nanni Moretti (Italy-France/2010/Cannes) 6. WIN WIN by Tom McCarthy (USA / 2011) 7. TOAST by S. J. Clarkson (UK/2010) 8. MONTEVIDEO – TASTE OF A DREAM by Dragan Bjelogrlic (Serbia/2010/Offcial Serbian Entry for 2012 Foreign Language Oscars) 9. SKYSKRAPER (SKYSKRABER) by Rune Schjøtt (Denmark / 2010) 10. SERVICE ENTRANCE (LES FEMMES DU 6ÈME ÉTAGE) by Philippe Le Guay (France / 2010/ Cannes) 11. THE SALT OF LIFE (GIANNI E LE DONNE) by Gianni Di Gregorio (Italy / 2011) 12. AZHAGARSAMI'S HORSE (AZHAGARSAMIYIN KUDHIRAI) by Suseenthrian (India (Tamil) / 2011/Toronto) 13. ARENA (AADUKALAM) by Vetri Maaran (India / 2011)
Politics-Activism-Entertainment/Art Combos
1. EVEN THE RAIN (TAMBIÉN LA LLUVIA) by Icíar Bollaín (Spain-France-Mexico / 2010/Berlin audience Choice) 2. IF NOT US, WHO (WER WENN NICHT WIR) by Andres Veiel (Germany / 2011/Berlin) 3. THE CONQUEST (LA CONQUÊTE) by Xavier Durringer (France / 2011/Cannes) 4. MISS BALA by Gerardo Naranjo (Mexico / 2010/Cannes) 5. GENERATION P (GENERATION П) by Victor Ginzburg (Russia / 2011) 6. MY BACK PAGES (MAI BAKKU PÊJI) by Nobuhiro Yamashita (Japan / 2011) 7. SING YOUR SONG by Susanne Rostock (USA / 2011/Berlin) 8. THE GREEN WAVE by Ali Samadi Ahadi (Germany / 2010) 9. LADY OF NO FEAR (AUNG SAN SUU KYI) by Anne Gyrithe Bonne (Denmark / 2010)
Sentimental-Heart-warming/Art Combos
1. THE MOUNTAIN (FJELLET) by Ole Giæver (Norway / 2011/Sundance) 2. THE PRIZE (EL PREMIO) by Paula Markovitch (Mexico-France-Germany-Poland / 2010/Berlin) 3. KING OF DEVIL’S ISLAND (KONGEN AV BASTØY) by Marius Holst (Norway / 2010) 4. THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO by Roebert Guédiguian (France / 2010) 5. BELOVED (LES BIEN-AIMÉS) by Christophe Honoré (France / 2011/Cannes) 6. MY SWEET CANARY by Roy Sher (Israel-Greece-France-Germany/2011) 7. MY OWN POLE (MÓJ BIEGUN) by Marcin Glowacki (Poland / 2011) 8. NOBEL CHOR by Suman Ghosh (India / 2011)
Girls-Sex-Skin/Art Combo
1. SLEEPING BEAUTY by Julia Leigh (Australia / 2011/ Cannes) 2. MY LITTLE PRINCESS by Eva Ionesco (France / 2011/Cannes) 3. SHE MONKEYS (APFLICKORNA) by Lisa Aschan (Sweden / 2011/Berlin) 4. 17 GIRLS(17 FILLES) by Delphine Coulin & Muriel Coulin (France /2011/Cannes) 5. THE SLUT (HANOTENET) by Hagar Ben Asher (Israel / 2011/Cannes) 6. ABOVE US ONLY SKY (ÜBER UNS DAS ALL) by Jan Schomburg (Germany / 2011) 7. DAD MADE DIRTY MOVIES by Jordan Todorov (USA / 2011)
Pure Art House
1. THE TURIN HORSE by Bela Tarr (Hungary-France-Switzerland-Germany/2011/Berlin) 2. PINA by Wim Wenders (Germany-France-UK/2011/Berlin) 3. THE MILL AND THE CROSS by Lech Majewski(Poland-Sweden/2011/Sundance) 4. HISTÓRIAS QUE SÓ EXISTEM QUANDO SÃO LEMBRADAS by Julia Murat (Brazil-Argentina-France/2011) 5. MICHAEL by Markus Schleinzer (Austria / 2011/ Cannes) 6. THE EDUCATION (DIE AUSBILDUNG) by Dirk Lütter (Germany / 2011) 7. OLD DOG by Pema Tseden (China-Tibet/2011) 8. BREAKFAST, LUNCH, DINNER by Kaz Cai, Wang Jing, & Anocha Suwchakornpong (Chine-Thailand-Singapore/2010) 9. FREE RADICALS: A HISTORY OF EXPERIMENTAL FILM by Christian Rouaud (France/2010)
Branded Art House
1. ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA (BIR ZAMANLAR ANADOLU'DA) by Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey / 2011/Cannes Grand Prix) 2. MELANCHOLIA by Lars Von Trier (Denmark / 2011/Cannes Best Actress) 3. ALMAYER’S FOLLY (LA FOLIE ALMAYER) by Chantel Akerman (Belgium-France / 2011/Toronto) 4. RESTLESS by Gus Van Sant (USA / 2010/Cannes) 5. RED STATE by Kevin Smith (USA / 2011/Sundance) 6. MUSHROOMS (CHATRAK) Vimukthi Jayasundara (France-India / 2011/ Cannes)
Experimental Art House
1. THE MINISTER (L'EXERCICE DE L'ÉTAT) by Pierre Scholler (France / 2011/Cannes) 2. A THOUSAND FOOLS (MIL CRETINOS) by Ventura Pons (Spain / 2010) 3. THE MONSTER’S DINNER (CANAVARLAR SOFRASI) by Ramin Matin (Turkey / 2011)
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