14th Kolkata Film Festival

After a hiatus of nine years, I went back to enjoy the thrills of the Kolkata Film Festival this year. It was almost like going back to university days, hopping from one hall to another in the Nandan-Rabindra Sadan complex, sipping sugar- infested tea and munching popcorns in between. I skipped the morning shows. I went in the afternoon, and most of the days, I watched three consecutive shows. I watched some really good new international films. I am enlisting here the films which I watched. I will write about them more in my next posts:1. Three Women -Manijeh Hekmat-Iran
2. I served the King of England-Jiri Menzel-Czech Republic
3. Dinner for four [short]
4. Made in USA- Claudio Llosa-Peru
5. Run -[short]
6. Blind- Tamar Van Den Dop- Netherlands
7. Firaaq- Nandita Das- India
8. Aboard the Pater Noster [short]
9. The Pope's Toilet - Enrique Fernandez and Cesar Charlone- Uruguay
10. Sparrows- Abhaya Simha- India
11. Three Monkeys- Nuri Bilge Ceyalan-Turkey
12.  Love It Like It Is [Short]
13. Iska's Journey -Csaba Bollock-Hungary
14. The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around The Corner- Stephan Komandarev-Bulgaria
15. Tricks- Andrzej Jakimowski-Poland
16. Sleepwalking Land- Teresa Prata- Mozambique
17. The Green Ray- Eric Rohmer-France
18. El Camino-Ishtar Yasin-Costarica
19. Gulabi Talkies-Girish Kasaravalli-Kannada
20. The Edge Of The Heaven- Fatih Akin-Germany
21. Chaturanga- Suman Mukhopadhyay-India
22. Killing Time [ short]-Haritz  Zubillaga- Spain
23. Taxi? [short]- Telmo Esnal- SpainI watched a few more Spanish short films, the names of which all I don't remember.More on the festival in my next posts.