True Grit

Name :True Grit (USA/2010/110mins)
Original title - True Grit
Language - English
Director : Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon and Hailee Steinfeld

Synopsis-
Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations in search of Chaney. They are joined by Texas Ranger LaBoeuf, who wants Chaney for his own purposes. The unlikely trio find danger and surprises on the journey, and each has his or her "grit" tested
source- imdb

Trailer link- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GkAH7IUWOE

Biutiful

Title-Biutiful (Spain/2009/148mins)
Original title- Biuiful
Language-spanish,chinese,wolof
Director : Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Produced by-Alejandro González Iñárritu
            Alfonso Cuarón
            Guillermo del Toro
            Fernando Bovaira
            Sandra Hermida
            Jon Kilik
            Ann Ruark
Synopsis-
Biutiful is the story of Uxbal – a single father who struggles to reconcile fatherhood, love, spirituality, crime, guilt and mortality amid the dangerous underworld of modern Barcelona -- all before his time is up. He must deal with his loving but unreliable, reckless, and bipolar wife (from whom he is separated and who poses a threat to the safety of their children), and a large group of illegal immigrants for whom he obtains material so that they may not be deported. In the middle of all of this, he is diagnosed with terminal cancer, which he tries to hide from his two children.source- wikipedia

Beaufort

Name of Film	Beaufort 2007
Original Title
Director	Joseph Cedar
Country	Israel
Language	Hebrew
Mins	131 mins
Format to be screened	35 MM
Festival & Awards	Academy Awards, USA YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2008 Nominated Oscar Best Foreign Language Film of the Year Israel.   Awards of the Israeli Film Academy YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2007 Won Award of the Israeli Film Academy Best Art Direction Miguel Markin Best Cinematography Ofer Inov Best Editing Zohar M. Sela Best Sound Israel David Alex Claude Asher Milo (as Ashi Milo) Nominated Award of the Israeli Film Academy Best Actor Oshri Cohen Best Costumes unknown Best Director Joseph Cedar Best Film Best Music unknown Best Screenplay Joseph Cedar Ron Leshem   Bangkok International Film Festival YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2007 Nominated Golden Kinnaree Award Best Film Joseph Cedar   Berlin International Film Festival YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2007 Won Silver Berlin Bear Best Director Joseph Cedar Nominated Golden Berlin Bear Joseph Cedar
Production design	Miguel Markin
Synopsis	BEAUFORT tells the story of LIRAZ LIBERTI, the 22 year-old outpost commander, and his troops in the months before Israel pulled out of Lebanon. This is not a story of war, but of retreat. This is a story with no enemy, only an amorphous entity that drops bombs from the skies while terrified young soldiers must find a way to carry out their mission until their very last minutes on that mountaintop. As LIRAZ lays the explosives which would destroy that very same structure that his friends had died defending, he witnesses the collapse of all he's been taught as an officer, and his soldier's mental and physical disintegration.
Note on Director	Yossef (Joseph) Cedar (born August 31, 1968, Hebrew: יוסף סידר) is an Israeli film director and screenwriter. He has won a Silver Bear and an Ophir Award for Best Director, and an Ophir Award for writing a Best Screenplay. He also won the best screenplay award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. for his film Footnote (2011). Cedar was born in New York. When he was 6 his family moved to Israel, and he grew up in the Bayit VeGan neighborhood in Jerusalem. He studied in a Yeshiva High School. In the Israeli army he served as a paratrooper. After graduating in Philosophy and History of theatre from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem he studied cinema studies in the New York University. When he came back to Israel he started working on the screenplay for his debut film, Time of Favor (2000), for which he moved and lived for 2 years in the Israeli settlement Dolev. The film became a big success and won 6 Ofir Academy Awards, including Best Picture. His second film was Campfire (2004) who was also a success with 5 Ofir Academy Awards including Best Picture, with 2 of them, Best Director and Best Screenplay, going to Cedar. For Beaufort (2007), his third film, he received the Silver Bear award for Best Director in the Berlin International Film Festival. Beaufort became one of the most critically acclaimed and successful Israeli films of the decade and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, the first such nomination for an Israeli film in 24 years. It also received 4 Ofir Academy Awards and was based on Cedar's own experiences during his army service on Israel's border with Lebanon. Cedar is an Orthodox Jew. His films are known to touch delicate issues of Israeli society. Israeli critic Yair Rave wrote: One of the reasons I like Cedar's films so much is... his ability to merge the Israeli spirit... with the universal cinematic codes. His upcoming film Footnote was premiered In Competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
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Trailer Link	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyl2JEFkxmo
Sources	Wikipedia and IMDB

Apart Together

Name of Film	Apart Together
Original Title	Tuan yuan
Director	Quan'an Wang
Country	China
Language	Mandarin
Mins	97 mins
Format to be screened	35 MM
Festival & Awards	Berlin International Film Festival YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2010 Won Silver Berlin Bear Best Screenplay Quan'an Wang Na Jin Nominated Golden Berlin Bear Quan'an Wang
Producer	Daning Du
Synopsis	Liu returns to his native city Shanghai after 50 years spent in Taiwan. He has come to find the first love of his life, Qiao, who he left behind pregnant. In the meantime, Qiao has married and formed a family. But Liu is determined to get the family's approval to take her away with him.
Note on Director	Wang (born. 1965) is a Sixth Generation Chinese film director. Wang was born in Yan'an, China. He graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1991. He had a ten year relationship with actress and muse Yu Nan, which ended in 2009. Wang's films have often emphasized China's rural life, including Jingzhe and Tuya's Marriage (2007). Wang's films have also often focused on female protagonists, including his first four films, who all starred actress Yu Nan. Wang's 2009 film, Weaving Girl took him to familiar territory, exploring working class female experiences in modern day China. Wang's most recent film, Apart Together—his first without Yu Nan in the starring role—follows an old Kuomintang soldier who returns to China from Taiwan after fifty years to find his first love. Apart Together opened the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival.
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Trailer Link	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7VbW7XPMRA
Sources	Wikipedia and IMDB

Eastern Plays

Name of Film	Eastern Plays
Original Title	Iztochni piesi)
Director	Kamen Kalev
Country	Bulgaria
Language	Bulgarian
Mins	83 mins
Format to be screened	35 MM
Festival & Awards	§  Tokyo International Film Festival 2009 §  Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix (Award for Best Film) §  Award for Best Director (Kamen Kalev) §  Award for Best Actor (Hristo Hristov, posthumously) §  Sarajevo Film Festival 2009 §  CICAE Award §  Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival 2009 §  Youth Jury's Award §  Warsaw International Film Festival 2009 §  1-2 Competition Award (competition for directors' first and second feature films) §  International Film Festival Bratislava 2009 §  Best Actor (Hristo Hristov, tied with Harold Torres for 'Norteado' ) §  Best Director (Kamen Kalev) §  Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Kamen Kalev) §  Estoril Film Festival 2009 §  Special Prize of the Jury - João Bénard da Costa (tied with 'The Girl') §  Trieste Film Festival - Alpe Adria Cinema 2010 §  Premio CEI §  Angers European First Film Festival 2010 §  Grand prix du jury long metrage Europeen (Ex-aequo) (tied with 'La Pivellina') §  Mons International Love Film Festival 2010 §  Le Prix du Public – Prix Be TV §  Sofia International Film Festival 2010 §  The Kodak Award for Best Bulgarian Feature Film §  Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival 2010 §  Best First Time Director (Kamen Kalev)
Producer	Kamen Kalev & Stefan Piryov (Waterfront Film) Film i Väst Fredrik Zander (The Chimney Pot)
Synopsis	Eastern Plays is the story of two alienated brothers, Hristo or Itso (Hristo Hristov), an artistwoodcarver who is struggling with his methadone addiction, and Georgi (Ovanes Torosyan), a high school student who is dragged into a neo-Nazi gang. The central point of the film is an ethnically-motivated attack by Georgi's neo-Nazi gang on a Turkish family from Istanbul, who are spending the night in Sofia en route to Germany. While Georgi initially participates in the beating, he is frightened and runs away. Itso, who had seen the family at a restaurant while he dined with his now-ex-girlfriend Niki (Nikolina Yancheva), ends up intervening and saving the family, including the beautiful daughter Işıl (Saadet Işıl Aksoy). In his developing feelings for Işıl, Itso sees hope of a positive change in his destiny, while Georgi's actions and his brother's help make him question his philosophy and reconsider his outlook on life
Note on Director	Kamen Kalev (born 8 June 1975) is a Bulgarian film director and screenwriter. Kalev came to prominence in 2009 with the film Eastern Plays, earning him numerous international film awards as director and screenwriter. After graduating a highschool in his hometown Bourgas, Kamen Kalev spent two years in Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria, studying at first photography, and then switched to cinematography. During his sophomore year he continued his education in moviemaking in the French state film school La Fémis in Paris. Kalev graduated Le Département Image in 2002.
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Trailer Link	www.easternplays.com/en/trailer
Sources	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamen_Kalev http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Plays

Katalin Vagra

Name of Film	Katalin Vagra
Original Title
Director	Peter Strickland
Country	Hungary
Language	Hungarian
Mins	82 mins
Format to be screened
Festival & Awards	Berlin International Film Festival Silver Berlin Bear Golden Berlin Bear British Independent Film Awards British Independent Film Award Douglas Hickox Award CPH:PIX CPH:PIX Award European Film Awards European Discovery of the Year Evening Standard British Film Awards Evening Standard British Film Award London Critics Circle Film Awards ALFS Award Romanian Union of Filmmakers Romanian Union of Filmmakers Award
Producer	Oana Giurgiu .... co-producer Oana Giurgiu .... producer Tudor Giurgiu .... co-producer Tudor Giurgiu .... producer Peter Strickland .... producer
Synopsis	In the beautiful, otherworldly Carpathian Mountains a woman is traveling with a small boy in a horse and cart, looking to punish those who once abused her. For years, Katalin has been keeping a terrible secret. Hitchhiking with two men, she was brutally raped in the woods. Although she has kept silent about what happened, she has not forgotten, and her son Órban serves as a living reminder. When her village discovers her secret, Katalin's husband rejects her. With nothing to lose, she is free to seek revenge on the perpetrators. As she puts human faces to horrible acts, she is forced to consider that morality might not be as black and white as she had imagined.
Note on Director	The directorial debut of Peter Strickland, he used the money from a bequest from his uncle to fund the project. Filmed over several years in a Hungarian-speaking part of the Romanian region of Transylvania, Strickland completed the project for £28,000.
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Trailer Link	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PTjObn2W5I
Sources	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katalin_Varga http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1360875/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/oct/08/katalin-varga-review