'Katradhu Tamizh' Ram's next Diwali in Suburbs Rajini Still In A Dilemma! அஜீத் பேட்டி? ராம் இயக்கத்தில் சேரன்? கமல் பாராட்டிய டைட்டில்்

Synopsis

Nha Fala / My Voice
June 18, 2007//6.30 p.m.
Directed by: Flora Gomes / 2002 / 110 min / comedy / Kabuverdianu / Guinea Bissau

It has always been a firm conviction of the family that any woman who sings, will die. Now, while a girl is in France she becomes an international star. She realises that sooner rather than later her mother in Africa will learn that she sings. To solve this dilemma she goes back to her native village and arranges her own funeral, albeit with instantaneous rebirth. She is lying in the coffin while all invited guest form a queue and pass the coffin one by one. And then one of the guests says: How different she looks after having died. Is this an allusion to Bergman's movie 'Now About These Women'?

Awards: 4 wins & 1 nomination
Amiens International Film Festival 2002: Won Prize of the City of Amiens - Flora Gomes
Signis Award - Flora Gomes
Ouagadougou Panafrican Film and Television Festival 2003: Won Award of the City of Ouagadougou - Flora Gomes
Venice Film Festival 2002: Won Laterna Magica Prize - Flora Gomes / Nominated Golden Lion -
Flora Gomes

Um Tiro No Escuro / A Shot in the Dark
June 19, 2007 6.30 p.m.
Directed by: Leonel Vieira / 2005 / 103 min / Thriller / colour / Portuguese / Portugal

An eight months baby is kidnapped in Rio de Janeiro airport. Her mother (Verónica) has just one clue: she knows the kidnapper was the Portuguese airhostess. Verónica sets to Portugal, after her child. She spends endless hours looking for the airhostess, and works as a stripper. She gets involved with Carlos and his brother (Brocas) who after release from prison plans to rob banks. Police inspector Rafael Salvador and agent Filipa investigate, Rafael finds out that a Brazilian woman is in Portugal for her kidnapped daughter. Veronica spots the airhostess and finds she is the inspector’s wife. Meanwhile, Filipa suspects her chief’s child may not be an adopted child, and starts a parallel investigation. Rafael is caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.
Awards: 1 nomination

Pele / Skin
June 20, 2007 6.30 p.m.
Directed by: Fernando Vendrell / 2006 / 102 min / colour/ Portuguese / Portugal

Olga (Daniela Costa) is the daughter of a wealthy businessman. Although beautiful and sophisticated, she is the daughter of her father's Angolan mistress, and aware that she will never be accepted fully into Lisbon high society. Trying to find a community with which she feels at ease, she gives up her life of privilege to join a troupe of actors and musicians.

O Heroi / The Hero
June 21, 2007 6.15 p.m.
Directed by: Zézé Gamboa / 2004 / 97 min / colour / Portuguese / Angola

When he was 15, Vitório was recruited by the Angolan army, where he would stay for two decades fighting. In his last mission, he was hit by a mine and lost a leg. After a long time waiting, he finally manages to secure a prothesis. With no job and unable to find his family, he faces indifference and mockery. One night, while sleeping on the street, somebody steals his prothesis. But he finds support in three people: the prostitute Judith, the boy Manu and Joana, Manu's teacher.
Awards: 3 wins
Loss Angeles Pan African Film Festival 2005: Won Best Feature - Carla Baptista
Nantes Three Continents Festival 2004: Won Audience Award - Zézé Gamboa
Sundance Film Festival 2005: Won Grand Jury Prize World Cinema - Dramatic - Zézé Gamboa

Odete / Two Drifters
June 21, 2007 8 p.m.
Directed by: Joăo Pedro Rodrigues / 2005 / 98 min / colour / Portuguese / Portugal

Two young men kiss and promise each other eternal love. A few minutes later one of them, Pedro, dies in a car accident. But their love will prevail through a strange transfer... Odete works in a supermarket and dreams of getting married, have a home and children. But her boyfriend is about to leave her. In an attempt to make him stay, she lies: she tells him she’s pregnant. But he doesn’t and goes away. Alone and desperate she finds out that Pedro, her neighbour from upstairs, has died in a car accident. She tries to convince his family that she is pregnant and that she bears Pedro’s child. But in the process she starts to believe in her own lies developing a hysterical pregnancy.
Awards: 2 wins & 1 nomination
Bogota Film Festival 2005: Won Bronze Precolumbian Circle - Joăo Pedro Rodrigues /
Nominated Golden Precolumbian Circle Best Film - Joăo Pedro Rodrigues
Cannes Film Festival 2005: Won Cinémas de Recherche - Special Mention - Joăo Pedro Rodrigues