Things You Shouldn’t Miss at 15th Pune International Film Festival | PIFF 2017 | 12th – 19th Jan 2017

A man (Hai Mao) and his older sister (Pei Liu) enter into romantic relationships that seem doomed to fail.

Contemporary Russia. A high school student becomes convinced that the world has been lost to evil, and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults around him.

A housemaid, working in an exclusive gated community in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, embarks on a journey of sexual and mental liberation in a nudist swinger-club boarding the high security walls.

Summer 1910. Several tourists have vanished while relaxing on the beautiful beaches of the Channel Coast. Infamous inspectors Machin and Malfoy soon gather that the epicenter of these mysterious disappearances must be Slack Bay, a unique site where the Slack river and the sea join only at high tide. There lives a small community of fishermen and other oyster farmers. Among them evolves a curious family, the Bréfort, renowned ferrymen of the Slack Bay, lead by the father nick-named “The Eternal”, who rules as best as he can on his prankster bunch of sons, especially the impetuous Ma Loute, aged 18.

Sir “P” a 90 year old gray parrot, formerly living with Edouard Daladier, the French prime minister responsible for signing the Munich Treaty, comes to Prague to give his “account” of the past events. But can he do it, being just a bird? In a series of weird events sir is kidnapped by a Czech journalist undergoing his midlife crisis.

A gang of Afghan kids from the Kuchi tribe dig out old Soviet mines and sell the explosives to children working in a lapis lazuli mine. When not dreaming of the time when American troops finally withdraw from their land, another gang of children keeps tight control on the caravans smuggling the blue gemstones through the arid mountains of Pamir.

It’s the last day of school in small town Poland and Gabrysia wants to tell her classmate that she loves him. But it will not end well.

In 1945 Poland, a young French Red Cross doctor who is sent to assist the survivors of the German camps discovers several nuns in advanced states of pregnancy during a visit to a nearby convent.

The film was inspired by the letters exchanged between two leading Portuguese poets, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and Jorge de Sena, during the exile of the latter (1957-78).

Three Palestinian women living in an apartment in Tel Aviv try to find a balance between traditional and modern culture.

A nurse traffics the ID cards of demented patients on the black market of identity theft. Driven by easy cash, and an addiction to morphine, she struggles to keep tabs on her emotional void, and a growing fear of punishment.

Based on a short story by co-writer Sudhir Naoroibam, Lady of the Lake begins on a tranquil note, following a fisherman as he goes about his daily routine. The opening 10 minutes are arguably the film’s high point, as cinematographer Shehnad Jalal effortlessly captures the odd beauty of the phumdi and the languid pace of life on the lake.

One of the most popular actors in Turkish cinema, Rıza Sönmez goes behind the camera for this docudrama, inspired by a visually-impaired musician whom he met in Kars during the filming of Uğur Yücel’s Soğuk/ Cold, and by insights from people in the city who thought Orhan Pamuk’s novel “Snow” failed to truthfully reflect their lives.

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