3 വൈസ് മെന്‍

3 Wise Men(2008)
Dir:Mika Kaurismaki
Country:Finland

Matti (51), a police inspector, Erkki (51), photographer and Rauno (51), actor, are childhood friends, who haven´t seen each other for a long time. They meet accidentally on Christmas Eve in Helsinki and spend the night together in a karaoke bar. Between drinking and singing they tell about the joys and sorrows of their lives, revealing some painfull experiences and taking even their friendship apart. The events take a dramatic turn, when a mysterious woman enters the bar.

യുവര്‍ നെയിം ഈസ്‌ ജസ്റ്റിന്‍

Your Name is Justine(2005)
Dir:Franco de Pena
Country:Poland
5 wins & 1 nomination See more »

While living with her grandmother in Poland, a young woman falls in love. Her boyfriend is charming and suggests they travel around Europe and work here and there to pay for their trip. Unfortunately, the boyfriend isn't as he seems and the young woman is sold as a prostitute when they cross over to Germany. We follow her ordeal as she tries to free herself and to stay sane as time goes by and her captors try to break and condition her to a new life of servitude.

ദി അദര്‍ ഹോളിവുഡ്

Cinema Europe:The Other Hollywood(1996)
Dir:Michael Winterbottom&Kevin Brownlow
Country:UK
Runtime:348(6episodes)


Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood was a 1996 documentary produced by David Gill and silent film historian Kevin Brownlow.

The six-part mini-series concerned with coverage of the origin of cinema, from its infancy as a novelty created by French inventors Louis and August Lumiere to a serious artistic and commercial contender against America (that is, until the surge of the Nazis).

The entire documentary is narrated by maverick filmmaker and actor, Kenneth Brannagh.

Original music in the film was composed by Carl Davis, Philip Appleby & Nic Raine.

The documentary was shown from time to time on public television stations, usually at late night slots, due to its length and occasional mature content.

The documentary is divided into the following sections, in order:

* "Where It All Began" (Introductory Episode)
Highlighting the world's first public presentation of films in Paris, the comedies by Max Linder, Abel Gance's J'Accuse and the onset of World War I.

* "Art's Promised Land" (Sweden)
Including Ingeborg Holm by Victor Sjostrom and Greta Garbo's star-making performance opposite Lars Hanson in Gosta Berling's Saga.

* "The Unchained Camera" (Germany)
Featuring The Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein, Metropolis by Fritz Lang, Joyless Street starring Greta Garbo, The White Hell of Pitz Palu featuring Leni Riefenstahl and Louise Brooks becomes a star in Pandora's Box.

* "The Music of Light" (France)
Highlighting Abel Gance's masterpiece, Napoleon.

* "Opportunity Lost" (Britain)
Exploring the real career of Alfred Hitchcock.

* "End of an Era" (Finale)
Focusing on the arrival of sound films, The Jazz Singer and the onslaught of World War II.

സോണിക് മിറര്‍

Sonic Mirror(2008)
Dir:Mika Kaurismaki
Country:Finland
Sonic Mirror takes the audience on a personal journey through Billy Cobham world of music. From an appearance with the Finnish Espoo Big Band "and the trumpeter Randy Brecker first looks at Cobham family roots in New York. He meets his parents before he sets off in a Brazilian favela to Bahia, to the kids there with a samba-reggae troupe rediscover his African origins.
The trip reached its peak when making music Billy Cobham in his adopted country Switzerland with autism, while a deep, strongly affecting communication happens, the human language is far superior. Cobham Travel is via the music straight to the roots of personal and cultural identity. "SONIC MIRROR": This is Cobham for the inseparable connection between music and dance, music and awareness of rhythm and life.
In SONIC MIRROR says the deeply humane about musicians, with and through music, but the role played by the music itself it is that creates cohesion, it gives people strength and perspective, it gives the right to social justice and education, an expression and serves in an emotional finale autistic people as expression and communication. SONIC MIRROR is a thrilling and highly topical plea for sensual, cultural education and for the active use of music in general. The music reflects the humanity of different cultures and expands the meaning of the power of sound.

വാന്‍ ഗോഗ് :പെയിന്റെഡ് വിത്ത്‌ വേര്‍ഡ്സ്

Van Gogh:Painted With Words(2010)

Dir:Andrew Hutton
Country:UK
Drama-documentary presented by Alan Yentob, with Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role as Van Gogh.
Every word spoken by the actors in this film is sourced from the letters that Van Gogh sent to his younger brother Theo, and of those around him. What emerges is a complex portrait of a sophisticated, civilised and yet tormented man.

കയോസ്,ദിസ്‌ ഈസ്‌

Chaos,This is(2007)
Dir:Youssef Chahine
Country;Egypt

Choubra, cosmopolitan neighborhood of Cairo. Hatem, maggoty police officer, handles this neighborhood with an iron hand. Every single citizen fears and hates him. Only Nour, a young woman he lusts after, dares stand up to him. But Nour is secretly in love with Cherif, brilliant and uncorrupted deputy public prosecutor. Green with envy, Hatem comes between. He wants Nour for himself. He whipsaws her and turns her life into a nightmare. The story of a frustrated love like Choubra experiences some since the mists of time. Written by Hassan Said (IMDB).

മെയ്‌ 6

May 6th(2003)
Dir:Theo Van Gogh
Country:Netherland
3 wins & 1 nomination See more »

06/05, called May 6 in English-speaking countries, is a Dutch 2003 film directed by Theo van Gogh, based on the novel De Zesde Mei by Tomas Ross. The film is a fictional version of the events that led to the assassination of the Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn on May 6, 2002. The lines between reality and fiction are blurred in 06/05. It is the last film of Theo van Gogh, who was murdered in 2004 by Mohammed Bouyeri.

On May 6, 2002, Pim Fortuyn, a Dutch anti-immigration politician and leader of the opposition, is assassinated. Nearby, photojournalist Jim de Booy is taking pictures of a TV star; he notices odd things and people. Over the next few days, Jim uncovers a conspiracy behind the murder, a plot involving Dutch state security, defense contractors, and shadowy Americans. A key to understanding the plot may be a Turkish woman, Ayse Him, an animal-rights activist recently released from prison. Jim searches for her. State security soon knows of his investigation and that puts him and his 16-year old daughter Marije in danger. How many will die to keep Fortuyn's real killers secret

Awards
Thijs Römer, 2005 Golden Calf award for Best Actor. Official Selection, 2005 Toronto International Film Festival.

റഫ് ആന്‍ഡ്‌ വല്‍ഗര്‍

Rough and Vulgar(2008)
Dir:Carlos Cuarón
Country;Mexico
1 win & 4 nominations See more »

Carlos Cuarón, who co-wrote the script for his brother Alfonso Cuarón's breakthrough hit, Y Tu Mamá También, makes his feature directorial debut with Rudo y Cursi. The film also reunites the stars of the earlier film, Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna. Rudo y Cursi depicts the changing relationship between two brothers who become soccer stars. Beto, the goaltender, is nicknamed "Rudo" because of his hard-nosed style of play, while Tato, a forward, gets the nickname "Cursi" for his flamboyant goal celebrations and his flashy lifestyle. They both start out picking bananas in remote Tlachatlán, where they share a devotion to their mother. Then Batuta, a charmingly shiftless professional scout, happens by. He can only sign one of the brothers, so they battle it out on the pitch to see who gets his break. Instead of throwing the match to his brother as plan, Tato scores a goal and is on his way to stardom. He's more interested in becoming a pop star than a soccer star, but when he meets Maya, a famous TV hostess he's dreamed about for years, he begins to enjoy the trappings of fame. Meanwhile, resentful Beto waits for his chance. When he finally gets his break, he leaves his disapproving wife, Toña, and his kids to sneak off to Mexico City. The brothers' fortunes rise and fall, with Tato distracted by a demanding girlfriend and a hopeless singing career, while Beto deals with marital strife and a serious gambling problem.

നൈറ്റ്‌ ആന്‍ഡ്‌ ഡേ

Night and Day(2004)
Dir:Chao Wang
Country:China
1 win See more »
A story of an entrepreneurial miner racked by guilt over the death of his lover’s husband. Set in the fictional community of Tianquan, somewhere in bleak northern China, coal miner Li Guangsheng lives and works with the older Zhongmin, a father figure. Guangsheng, who is secretly having a hotsyhotsy affair with Zhongmin’s wife, is mortified when Zhongmin dies in a mine explosion and blames himself for not saving his friend. Suffering an attack of impotence, he sends Zhongmin’s widow away. After buying the mine under a new government policy designed to encourage private initiative, Guangsheng works like a Trojan to clear and re-open the site. He’s joined in this by Zhongmin’s son, A-fu, and gradually makes a success of the mine.

ലക്ഷ്വറി കാര്‍

Luxury Car(2006)
Dir:Chao Wang
Country:China
1 win See more »
Mainland Chinese helmer Wang Chao finally attains an almost perfect balance between style and content in "Luxury Car," a tightly written and beautifully played drama centered on a karaoke bar escort girl and her elderly father who visits from the sticks. Though co-financed by the same French company behind Cannes competition film "Summer Palace," pic has none of the latter's Euro arthouse feel and boasts genuinely involving characters shaped by contempo society. "Car" looks likely to motor into select venues after tooling through the fest circuit.

Film is a quantum leap for Wang, now in his mid-40s, who debuted in Cannes' Directors Fortnight five years ago with the dryly humorous "The Orphan of Anyang" and followed that three years later with the exquisitely shot but emotionally lifeless "Day and Night," co-financed by the same Gallic shingle as "Car." Current item preserves the same tech finish but dumps the arty pretensions that hampered "Day."

Li Qiming (Wu Youcai, from legit), an aging country school teacher, arrives back in Wuhan, central China, after 40 years to find his son, Xueqin, to whom he hasn't spoken to in ages. His wife back home has uterine cancer and wants to see her son before she dies.

However, it is Li's daughter, Yanhong (rock singer Tian Yuan, from "Butterfly"), who puts her dad up at the apartment she shares with a hooker, A Li (Li Li). Yanhong says she's too busy to accompany her father on his search of the city, so, instead, Li is helped by an old cop (Li Yiqing, also from local legit), who's about to retire. The growing friendship between the two oldsters -- who share the sorrow of missing sons -- becomes one of the film's greatest pleasures.

Yanhong, who is actually the film's central character, can't follow her dad around because she works as an escort at a large karaoke club, whose "businessman" boss, He (Huang He), she's sleeping with and is also pregnant by. For appearance's sake, He pretends to be Yanhong's b.f. and shows respect to her father.

The quietly observant father soon figures out much of what is going on but doesn't raise a fuss and is heartened by news that his son may now be in Shenzhen (across from Hong Kong). The truth, however, is somewhat different, and events take a hand when war breaks out between He and another local "businessman" (Wang Guoqiang).

Aside from Wang's precise but unmannered direction, which accurately captures the tenor of life in contempo China, the movie is bolstered by perfs that say much more than is actually in the dialogue -- notably in a dinner scene among the four main characters prior to the climax.

Aside from vets Wu and Li Yiqing, as the father and cop, Tian more than holds her own as the bruised but resilient daughter. Huang, too, shades what is usually an overplayed role in Chinese cinema.

Helmer Wang has flagged the picture as the last in his trilogy on China's "dark side" of society. But its craft and greater accessibility also mark his coming of age as a moviemaker. Chinese title literally means "River City Summer Days," referring to Wuhan and its location on the Yangtze.