CULTURAL HALL, 4th Floor,
Yashwantrao Chavan Centre (for Blu Ray & DVD formats)
Tuesday, 22nd January 2019
11:00 AM
The Clan | El Clan
Dir.: Pablo Trapero | Argentina | 2015 | 110'
Buenos Aires in the early 1980s. To outsiders, the Puccios appear to be a typical middle-class family. In reality, however, patriarch Arquímedes Puccio runs his business with a grip of iron. The business itself is bleak and gruesome: kidnapping, ransom blackmail, murder. He gets unconditional support from his son Alejandro who seeks out suitable victims. As the star of Argentina's rugby team, Alejandro is above all suspicion and thus the ideal tool. When Alejandro begins to have doubts about the family business, however, the facade begins to crumble. The Clan is a sinister thriller based on one of Argentina's best-known criminal families.
01:30 PM From Where We’ve Fallen | He ri jun zai lai
Dir.: Wang Feifei | China | 2017 | 100
It's past midnight. Zhao goes down to smoke, leaving his drunken wife to murmur her erotic dream upstairs. Neighbour Lee jumps off the building in front of Zhao, and his suicide reveals a secret sex video taken by phone.It's past midnight. Zhao goes down to smoke, leaving his drunken wife to murmur her erotic dream upstairs. Neighbour Lee jumps off the building in front of Zhao, and his suicide reveals a secret sex video taken by phone.Sanqing falls in love with her tutor. She wants to strengthen her relationship with Professor Sun on a seaside trip, but finally realises her efforts are in vain. Hai Long is an old acquaintance of Sun. He tries to bring Sanqing and his client Wang together, giving Sanqing the opportunity to take revenge. In the dark tunnel on the island, Wang tells Sanqing a nightmare that reveals the whole story.
03:30 AM Graves Without a Name | Les Tombeaux Sans Noms
Dir.:Rithy Panh | France, Cambodia | 2018 | 115'Dir.:Rithy Panh | France, Cambodia | 2018 | 115'
After The Missing Picture, and Exile, Rithy Panh continues his personal and spiritual exploration. Graves Without A Name searches for a path to peace. When a thirteen-year-old child, who lost the greater part of his family under the Khmer Rouge, embarks on a search for their graves, whether clay or on spiritual ground, what does he find there? And above all, what is he looking for? Spectral trees? Villages defaced beyond recognition? Witnesses who are reluctant to speak? The ethereal touch of a brother or sister's body as the night approaches? A hesitant, but frank cinematic experience that reaches well beyond the story of a country for that which is universal.
06:00 PM Respeto | Respeto
Dir.:Nagashwin | India | 2018 | 173'Dir.: Alberto Monteras II | Philippines | 2018 | 98'
Hendrix is an aspiring hip-hop artist trapped in a life of low- level crime by his family of drug addicts. A failed robbery brings him and his friends into a redemptive partnership with Doc, an elderly bookstore owner whose life as a poet ended under martial law. The stubborn old man becomes a mentor to Hendrix, encouraging him to find the art in his wordplay. But then the personal becomes the dangerously political.Hendrix is an aspiring hip-hop artist trapped in a life of low- level crime by his family of drug addicts. A failed robbery brings him and his friends into a redemptive partnership with Doc, an elderly bookstore owner whose life as a poet ended under martial law. The stubborn old man becomes a mentor to Hendrix, encouraging him to find the art in his wordplay. But then the personal becomes the dangerously political.In this era of extrajudicial killings under the reign of the current president, Duterte, here is a film reminding us that true hip- hop is political.