RANGSWAR

RANGSWAR, 4th Floor, 
Yashwantrao Chavan Centre (for Blu Ray & DVD formats)

Monday, 21st January 2019

10:30 AM
    The Last Emperor | The Last Emperor 
Dir.: Bernardo Bertolucci | UK, Italy, China, France | 1987 | 165
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic..



01:30 PM
Blessed Is The Fruit
Rebento Dir.: André Morais | Brazil | 2018 | 97
BESSED IS THE FRUIT DIR (3)After committing a crime, woman abandons home and family in search of an unknown destination. Do not know who is she, nor the why of such crime. The mystery about this woman is one of the key points of the narrative. In the course of history will be called Maria, Rosa and Ana, may be one of them your real name, may be none. She will walk for a whole day, embraced a watermelon and will brief encounters that will mark her day and her life, facing a world sometimes hostile and sometimes delicate, in the attempt to live together with love and loveless which brings herself.
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03:30 PM
Touch Me Not | Touch Me Not
Dir.: Adina Pintilie | Romania, Germany, France,Bulgaria, Czech Republic | 2018 | 125'
'Tell me how you loved me, so I understand how to love.''Tell me how you loved me, so I understand how to love.'Together, a filmmaker and her characters venture into a personal research project about intimacy. On the fluid border between reality and fiction, Touch Me Not follows the emotional journeys of Laura, Tómas and Christian, offering a deeply empathic insight into their lives. Craving for intimacy yet also deeply afraid of it, they work to overcome old patterns, defense mechanisms and taboos, to cut the cord and finally be free.Touch Me Not looks at how we can find intimacy in the most unexpected ways, at how to love another without losing ourselves.
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05:45 PM
Acucar | AÇÚCAR
Dir.:RenataPinheiro and Sergio Oliveira | Brazil | 2017 | 90'
'Açúcar brings to the surface a lifelong Brazilian malady: Slavery. The film is set in a universe of magic realism that crosses the personal story of Bethania with the identity formation of a country that is modern and archaic, contemporary and ancestral, white and much, much more black. Bethania returns to her fields where once was a sugar mill named after her family - Wanderley's Mill. Between photos, fantastic creatures, bills to pay, workers claiming their rights over the land, sounds and memories of the old manor house, Bethania faces herself in a present where past and future are both threatening. The film is set in a universe of magic realism that crosses the personal story of Bethania with the identity formation of a country that is modern and archaic, contemporary and ancestral, white and much, much more black.
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07:30 PM
Medea| Medea
Dir.: Alexandra Latishev Salazar | Argentina, Costa Rica – Chile | 2017 | 73
María Josés life moves back and forth between the monotony of classes at the university, her eternally distant parents, rugby training, and dares with her gay friend. Emotionally disconnected from her environment, when she meets Javier, she tries to start a relationship with him. But all her efforts to live a “normal” life cannot succeed. She is carrying a secret that everybody avoids to notice: she is a few months into her pregnancy.
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YIFF 2019 [Inauguration]

YIFF 2019

Lecture Ms. Nandita Das

YIFF 2019