29th WFF
films seen on 29th Warsaw Film Festival 11-20.X.2013
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- DirectorIgnas JonynasStarsVytautas KaniusonisOona MekasRimas BlockisParamedic Vincentas is a passionate gambler, who is forced to make radical decisions to return the debts. An idea strikes Vincentas to create an illegal game related to his profession. Love, life and death will be at stake.11.X.2013; 11:00; IC (international Competition);+;;N2;IC Yury Special Award;
- DirectorMichele GentileMarcus VetterStarsLuis Moreno OcampoFatou BensoudaAdrian FulfordShot in the style of a legal thriller, the documentary "The International Criminal Court" relates how the first internationally legitimated criminal court was founded in 2002, and how it investigates appalling crimes committed by some of the world's most ruthless war criminals.11.X.2013; 14:00; DOC (Documentary);+;;N2;;
- DirectorChe SandovalStarsSebastián BrahmAntonella CostaNicolás AlalufIn an urban comedy, Cristobal (40), a father and businessman, sees how his wife is awarded a scholarship and moves to Spain, wanting to take him and their children along with her. Humiliated by this, he disappears and wanders throughout Santiago looking for sex. After a pathetic night filled with failures, during which he is unable to forget his conflict, the time to chose shall come: either his family or his ego...11.X.2013; 16:00; FS (Free Spirit);+;;N2;FS Yury Award;
- DirectorJason Paul LaxamanaStarsAlex MedinaJoey ParasAlma ConcepcionGreg is past his heyday as a bodybuilder and now faces problems with his quarreling parents and overbearing girlfriend. He turns to conning people for money using a made-up Facebook account as part of an elaborate scheme devised by his manager Marney. Their operation gets compromised when Greg falls in love with their latest victim Daisy, an older single woman. This is a story of deceptive people and how they feed on other people's needs for love, sex and money.11.X.2013; 18:45; 1-2 [1st 2nd movie];+;director;N2;;
- DirectorMichael L. SuanStarsTyce FrancoisRoxanne PrenticeKelly FedonniA Yakuza hitman travels to North America for his 27th job, only to find lingering memories of lost love through a chance encounter with a beautiful prostitute.11.X.2013; 21:00; FS;+;director;N2;;
- DirectorEmir BaigazinStarsTimur AidarbekovAslan AnarbayevMukhtar AndassovLonely Kazakh teenager Aslan is bullied at his new school. He prepares himself for a bloody revenge on the school bully Bolat.12.X.2013; 9:30; ODK (Discoveries);+;;N2;NETPAC Award;
- DirectorIlmar RaagStarsUrsula RataseppMait MalmstenLeila SäälikKertu s life is totally spoiled by an overbearing father, until she opens her heart to an unlikely dream lover.12.X.2013; 11:00; IC;+;;N2;;-late
- DirectorHany Abu-AssadStarsAdam BakriLeem LubanyEyad HouraniA young Palestinian freedom fighter agrees to work as an informant after he's tricked into an admission of guilt by association in the wake of an Israeli soldier's killing.12.X.2013; 13:30; X (World Today);+;;N2;;
- DirectorVivian QuStarsYulai LüWenchao HeYong HouIn a southern city of China, a digital mapping surveyor encounters a mysterious woman on an unmappable street.12.X.2013; 16:00; IC;+;producer;N2;;
- DirectorYuriy BykovStarsDenis ShvedovYuriy BykovIrina NizinaIn a car accident, a policeman accidentally killed a child. The other cops are trying to hush up the case.12.X.2013; 18:30; PS (Special Screening);+;;N2;;
- DirectorDmitriy TyurinStarsMikhail GrubovSergey LavyginNikita OstrikovYoung Chechnya war veteran alienates himself from his friends and family because of his burned face. When he has to help find his war-time friend, he manages to get back to life again.12.X.2013; 21:00; IC;+;;N2;;
- DirectorUgur YücelStarsAhmet Rifat SungarValeriya SkorokhodovaJulia VaniukovaThree Russian sisters work in a tavern in Kars, a city in the east of Turkiye. Two brothers who live in the same city go to that tavern. Elder of the brothers who is married works as a railway worker; controls rails and allows/stoppes trains to pass.13.X.2013; 9:30; ODK;+;;N2;;
- DirectorSebastián SilvaStarsMichael CeraGaby HoffmannJuan Andrés SilvaAs Jamie travels in Chile, he invites an eccentric woman to join his group's quest to score a fabled hallucinogen, a move that finds him at odds with his new companion, until they drink the magic brew on a beach at the edge of the desert.13.X.2013; 11:30; ODK;+;;N2;;
- DirectorAmir ToodehroostaStarsSaed SoheiliMostafa SasaniSonia SanjariIn a city where owning a dog is illegal, a man facing marital problems takes care of a German shepherd named Paat. When the man is brutally murdered by his wife, Paat runs away, setting off for the big city.13.X.2013; 13:30; IC;+;;N2;;
- DirectorDerek AndersonVictor KubicekStarsVictor KubicekAndrew MadoffBernie MadoffEleanor Squillari went to work every day believing she was working for a great company, a great man. For twenty-five years she sat 15 feet from Bernard L. Madoff as his personal secretary. She never imagined that he was perpetrating the largest financial crime in history. On December 11th, 2008, her life as she knew it was destroyed...until she decided to do something about it.13.X.2013; 16:30; XX (World Today DOX);+;;N2;;
- DirectorAharon KeshalesNavot PapushadoStarsLior AshkenaziRotem KeinanTzahi GradAfter a little girl is brutally murdered, a suspect avoids arrest due to lack of evidence. Working separately, her father and a cop decide to do something about it.13.X.2013; 18:30; ODK;+;;N2;;marvelous opening scene
- DirectorIvars TontegodeStarsMareks BalmanisDace EversaBruno HenryPeter is the most ordinary person. He lives with his controlling mother and spends his days at the office, where he is the butt of his colleagues' jokes. All goes well till his sexually aggressive female boss decides to take him to Africa. And then his pretty colleague from the next office starts flirting with him, as well. Tired of all this female attention, Peter and his buddies sneak into an army base to pick psychedelic mushrooms. So begins the trip that will change Peter's whole life.13.X.2013; 21:00; FS;+;;N2;;
- DirectorYoav ShamirStarsYoav ShamirPhilip ZimbardoAward-winning director Yoav Shamir (Defamation, Checkpoint) sets out on an entertaining and insightful international quest, exploring the notion of heroism through a multi-faceted lens. From ordinary heroes to freedom fighters, primates to humans, behavioral scientists to geneticists, even Ayn Rand to Raelians, Shamir leaves no stone unturned, and along the way unveils the fundamental truths of human nature.14.X.2013; 11:00; DOC;+;;N2;;
- DirectorPawel ZiemilskiA short visual journey through various households shows just how lively, unique and atmospheric these places can be.14.X.2013; 14:00; PSH (Polish Shorts);+;;N2;;
- DirectorIzabela PlucinskaStarsKathrin AngererTheo Vadersen14.X.2013; 14:00; PSH;+;;N2;;
- DirectorJakub PolakowskiStarsMalgorzata BaczynskaSlawomir BlaszewskiMariusz Brzozowski14.X.2013; 14:00; PSH;+;;N2;;
- DirectorKristoffer RusStarsArkadiusz JakubikTilly Scott PedersenGustaf SkarsgårdThree people meet at the top of a skyscraper. They have the same intention - to commit suicide due to a major financial crisis. The conflict quickly deepens when they discover that they all represent a different conviction about the hereafter: Sarah is the believer, John the atheist and Ben uncertain agnostic. The only way to find out who's right is to take The Big Leap.14.X.2013; 14:00; PSH;+;director;N2;;
- DirectorMalgorzata Rzanek14.X.2013; 14:00; PSH;+;director;N2;;
- DirectorLukasz OstalskiStarsDanuta StenkaMagdalena CzerwinskaRafal FudalejMalgorzata - an important politician - is going to her home at the lake. Her son - a drug addict - needs her help. Malgorzata is asking her daughter for her support. At home they find Malgorzata's semiconscious son and a massacred body of a young girl. In the face of the tragedy, their relationship gets complicated, disclosing their hidden grudges. The mother has to make the most difficult decision in her life.14.X.2013; 14:00; PSH;+;director;N2;;
- DirectorRick RowleyStarsJeremy ScahillNasser Al AulaqiSaleha Al AulaqiInvestigative journalist Jeremy Scahill is pulled into an unexpected journey as he chases down the hidden truth behind America's expanding covert wars.14.X.2013; 16:30; DOC;+;;N2; Doc Yury Award;