CULTURAL HALL, 4th Floor,
Yashwantrao Chavan Centre (for Blu Ray & DVD formats)
Thursday, 24th January 2019
11:00 AM
White Elephant | Elefante Blanco
Dir. : Pablo Trapero | Argentina | 2012 |110
The "Villa Virgin", a shantytown in the slums of Buenos Aires. Julian and Nicolas, two priests and long-standing friends, work tirelessly to help the local people.The "Villa Virgin", a shantytown in the slums of Buenos Aires. Julian and Nicolas, two priests and long-standing friends, work tirelessly to help the local people.Julian uses his political connections to oversee the construction of a hospital. Nicolas joins him following the failure of a project he was leading in the jungle, after paramilitary forces assassinated members of the community. Deeply troubled, he finds a little comfort in Luciana, a young, attractive, atheist social worker. As Nicolas' faith weakens, tension and violence between the slum drug dealing cartels grow. And when work on the hospital is halted by ministerial decree, the fuse is lit...
01:30 PM Ash | Zhui Zong
Dir.: Xiaofeng Li | China | 2017 | 114
A body is found in a movie theatre. Clues suggest it may be a case of rough justice, for the man who met a violent death was himself a violent man who battered his wife. The cop investigating the murder suspects the dead man's son, a steelworker, but lacks the evidence to charge the young man. Thwarted in his studies, but an avid reader, the steelworker becomes an unlikely pen-pal to a medical student. Both are drawn to each other by their shared passion for Tolstoy's last novel „Resurrection“, and a romantic question prompted by Tolstoy's story that one of them has scribbled on the inside of a used paperback. Ten years later, the three men – now a hard-bitten cop, famous doctor and lowly delivery man – find themselves bound together again in a tangled web of lies and suspicions, as memories of a second murder threaten to betray long-held secrets.
02:30 AM NO SHOW
08:00 PM I’m Back | Sono Tornato
Dir.:Luca Miniero|Italy|2018|100
Mussolini, incredulous and bewildered, wakes up in the middle of Piazza Vittorio, in contemporary Rome. Aware that the war is over, he finds that everything has totally changed. People ignore him, until young filmmaker Andrea Canaletti mistakes him for a comedian and offers him a leading role in the documentary he is making. Mussolini grabs the opportunity as he secretly hopes to win his power back. The unlikely duo give life to a surrealistic relationship during which they travel throughout Italy. Little by little, Mussolini becomes ever more popular and is offered a leading role in a TV show.Mussolini, incredulous and bewildered, wakes up in the middle of Piazza Vittorio, in contemporary Rome. Aware that the war is over, he finds that everything has totally changed. People ignore him, until young filmmaker Andrea Canaletti mistakes him for a comedian and offers him a leading role in the documentary he is making. Mussolini grabs the opportunity as he secretly hopes to win his power back. The unlikely duo give life to a surrealistic relationship during which they travel throughout Italy. Little by little, Mussolini becomes ever more popular and is offered a leading role in a TV show.