FILMOTECA ESPAÑOLA
17 may, Saturday / 19.30 Sala1
20 may, Tuesday / 22.00 Sala 1
Apur Panchali (Official Section)
(Kaushik Ganguly, 2013). Cast : Ardhendu Banerjee, Parambrata Chatterjee, Parno Mitra. India. DCP. 97'
Subir Banerjee at a tender age went on to deliver an impressionable performance as Apu in Pather Panchali which is listed amongst the 100 greatest films of all time. The boy who grew up never to act again in films has striking similarities with the journey of the ‘reel’ Apu. Many of the incidents shown from Subir’s life reflect Apu’s loss and tragedy in the film. Ardhendu Banerjee plays Subir in his dotage. The actor’s performance is earthy and honest which is much necessary to show the character’s internal conflict.
18 may, Sunday / 22.00 Sala1
21 may, Wednesday / 19.30 Sala 1
Parviz (Official Section)
(Majid Barzegar, 2013). Cast : Levon Haftvan, Homeira Nonahali, Mahmoud Behrouzian. Irán. 107'
Despite his 50 years Parviz still lives off his father and the two men don’t get on very well. Things come to a head when the father tells his son he has decided to remarry. Parviz has no other choice but surrender his place to his step-mother and leave home. Parviz finds it difficult to get used to this new solitary life far from his neighborhood and the people he knows. He thus concocts a novel way of fighting back against the injustice done to him.
22 may, Thursday / 19.00 Sala 2
25 may, Sunday / 20.00 Sala 2
Salma (Official Section / Women in struggle)
(Kim Longinotto, 2013) Documentary. Great Britain. 91'
When Salma, a young Muslim girl in a south Indian village, was 13 years old, her family locked her up for 25 years, forbidding her to study and forcing her into marriage. During that time, words were Salma's salvation. She began covertly composing poems on scraps of paper and, through an intricate system, was able to sneak them out of the house, eventually getting them into the hands of a publisher. Against the odds, Salma became the most famous Tamil poet: the first step to discovering her own freedom and challenging the traditions and code of conduct in her village.
As with her other work (Pink Saris, Rough Aunties), master documentarian Kim Longinotto trains her camera on an iconoclastic woman. Salma's extraordinary story is one of courage and resilience, and Longinotto follows her on an eye-opening trip back to her village. Salma has hopes for a different life for the next generation of girls, but as she witnesses, familial ties run deep, and change happens very slowly.
Presentation by ELENA BALLESTEROS (25 may)
22 may, Thursday / 19.00 Sala 1
The King Is Dead! (Official Section / Australian cinema)
(Rolf de Heer, 2012). Cast : Bojana Novakovic, Dan Wyllie, Gary Waddell. Australia. B-R. 106'
Open inspection at the house-for-sale in the quiet, leafy neighbourhood...Max, science teacher, and Therese, tax accountant, decide that here is the house for them. Unsuspecting, they buy and move in, finding a nice family on one side and, well, "interesting" on the other. But interesting soon becomes loud, and loud soon becomes intolerable and when the intolerable becomes the violent, and the police are powerless to do anything, and the community lawyer suggests ear plugs, Max and Therese are forced to try and solve the problem of the neighbour from hell themselves...and end up with a corpse on their hands. But even that's not the worst of it, because the corpse from hell has friends...and even worse, enemies...
23 may, Friday / 20.00 Sala 2
Gulabi Gang (Official Section / Women in struggle)
(Nishtha Jain, 2012). Documentary. India. B-R. 96'
The district is Banda, and the region, Bundelkhand, in UP. And an organization that has steadily been a media magnet for what it has managed to do: in the rural backwaters of North India, where years of heavy-handed, violent patriarchy has stunted the growth of women and killed the girl child, a woman has taken on all comers. ‘Gulabi Gang’, Nishtha Jain’s award-winning documentary gives us an up-close view of Sampat Pal and her gang, which dons pink ‘saris’, and hefts ‘lathis’, and fights against injustice where it is most needed.
Presentation by ALBA FLORES
24 may, Saturday / 21.40 Sala 1
Algorithms (Official Section)
(Ian McDonald, 2012). Documentary. India. 96'
In India, a group of boys dream of becoming Chess Masters, driven by a man with a vision. But this is no ordinary chess and these are no ordinary players. Algorithms is a documentary on the thriving but little known world of Blind Chess in India.
Filmed over three years, Algorithms travels with three talented boys and a totally blind player turned pioneer to competitive national and world championships and visits them in their home milieu where they reveal their struggles, anxieties and hopes.
Going beyond sight and story, this observational sport doc with a difference moves through the algorithms of the blind chess world challenging the sighted of what it means to see. It allows for the tactile and thoughtful journey that explores foresight, sight and vision to continue long after the moving image ends.
27 may, Tuesday / 20.30 Sala 2
Ankhon Dekhi (Official Section)
(Rajat Kapoor, 2014). Cast : Sanjay Mishra, Seema Pahwa, Rajat Kapoor. India. 146'
Bauji (Sanjay Mishra) lives with his younger brother (Rajat Kapoor) in one of those cramped first floor quarters, more hovel than ‘haveli’, in Old Delhi’s Fatehpuri area. It has a ‘chhatt’ with ‘janglas’, tiny rooms adjacent to each other, a makeshift kitchen, and a common toilet. The family is joint at the hip in more ways than one, which is evident right from the first scene when Bauji’s daughter Rita (Maya Sarao ) is found to be in a relationship with an allegedly disreputable boy (Namit Das), and all hell breaks loose.
Presentation by Rajat Kapoor and Alba Flores.
28 may, Wednesday / 19.30 Sala 1
31 may, Saturday / 20.00 Sala 2
Spring at Zarechnoy street (Retrospective of M. Khutsiyev)
(Marlen Khutsiev, Feliks Mironer, 1956). Cast : Nina Ivanova, Nikolai Rybnikov, Vladimir Gulyaev. URSS. 94'
An idealistic, sophisticated young woman meets a rough-around-the-edges, blue collar man and rejects him, only to find out later that they are destined for true love together, despite the fact that he cannot now pass his certification test after she threw him out of her adult education class.
With the presentation of Marlen Khutsiev and Miguel Marías. (28 may)
29 may, Thursday / 21.10 Sala 1
Jinjin (Official Section)
(Daiki Yamada, 2013). Cast : Yasuo Daichi, Emily Aihara, Miu Arai. Japan. 129'
Street performer Ginzaburo Tateishi has a daughter. When his daughter was 6-years-old, he divorced his wife and has not seen his daughter since then.
One day, Ginzaburo Tateishi visits a farm run by his childhood friend. There, Ginzaburo meets four female high school students who came to the farm for agricultural training. Ginzaburo becomes close to the female students, except for one student named Ayaka. Soon, Ginzaburo discovers her secret.
Presentation by the team of the film :
KOKI SHIMIZU (Vicemajor of Kenbuchi)
NAOTO IGARASHI (Journalist)
DAIKI YAMADA (Director)
JIRO NODAKE (Distribution Producer)
TOMOKO OOI (Domestic Sales)
KEIKO ITO (Overseas Sales)
CINETECA EL MATADERO
17 may, Saturday / 17.30
El aire hace que las cosas se muevan (Shortfilms / Remember!)
(Emilia Ruiz) Spain, 2013, 10 min
Sophie-Marie has just arrived to the Couiza-Montazels shelter in France as voluntary. The suffocated summer weather makes Sophie-marie to walk around to get some brize. She met María, a spanish refugee who has not yet spoken to her.
TRI (Three) (Serbian Cinema)
(Alexandar Petrovic, Serbia) 1965. 80 min.
Three stories are set at the beginning, middle and the end of WW2. In all three of them the hero of the movie must witness the death of people he likes. The film was nominated for the oscars by Yugoslavia.
17 may, Saturday / 21.00
KLOPKA (The trap) (Serbian Cinema)
(Srdan Golubovic) Serbia, 2007, 106 min.
"THE TRAP" is a modern film noir reflecting the true face of Serbian (Eastern European) 'society in transition.' It's a story that could happen to you. It is a film about an ordinary man, who is forced to choose between life and death of his own child. THE TRAP is a film about post-Milosevic's Serbia, in which there is no more war, but there is moral and existential desert, about Serbia in transition, in which human life still doesn't worth a lot, about normal life which still seems unreachable.
18 may, Sunday / 18.00
AJANTRIK (Unmechanical) (Retrospective of Ritwik Ghatak)
(Ritwik Ghatak, India) 1958, 102 min
"They call me a machine, they don't understand that Jaggadal is also a human". The complex interaction between nature, mankind and the machine in the backdrop of an harsh and rocky wasteland of Bihar comes the unique story of Jaggadal. Though the name is masculine but the car is definitely feminine as illuminated in the movie. This is the masterstroke of Ritwik and could well be his defining work. No other movie captured this relationship between a man and his machine as have been done here. All later movies based on such theme will be pale including the most recent AI. Only a vagabond and an insane be so ungrateful and unemotional to something which have been making a living for him for so many years. A point proved in Ajantrik.
JE RAATE (Filmes de SRFTI / Remember!)
(Prajna Dutta, India) 2013, 9 min
Je Raate traces the dynamics among a group of characters on the night of 14 August 1947 sharing the same predicament of separation.
18 may, Sunday / 20.30
La sombra de la madre (Spanish productions in India)
(Ramón López, Spain) 2012, 72 min
The true story of a young woman born in India who after being adopted in Spain, returns 20 years later to the orphanage where she was adopted in search of her biological mother. A hard experience that will take her to wonder why we are so? Why things happen in this way?
Mokama fast passenger (Films from SRFTI)
(Subhadro Choudhury, India) 2013, 24 min
Mohan is a labour contractor, who works for a construction company. He shares a relation with Sabita in the city. On the contrary, Rakhi and her father-in-law waits in the village for Mohan to return. Occasional money order comes but Mohan doesn’t return. Rakhi finds escapade from her daily mundane life, when she goes to feed Jogi, a truck driver. They share a silent relation. One day, Mohan plans to leave the city. He catches a train to his village
Presentation of the film "La sombra de la madre" by the director Ramón López.
19 may, Sunday / 20.30
Mirch masala (Women in struggle)
(Ketan Mehta, India) 1987, 128 min
In colonial India, subedars (tax collectors) went from village to village, with soldiers, often demanding more than taxes. A subedar commands Sonbai, a beautiful and confidant women whose husband is away in the city, to sleep with him. She slaps him and flees for safety to a spice factory where women grind chillies into fine powder. The aged factory guard, Abu Mian, locks the door behind her, refusing to open it to the soldiers, to the cowardly village men led by the mayor, and to the subedar himself. The town's teacher, who follows Gandhi, and a few women, led by the mayor's wife, protest ineffectually against this village-approved rape. The stage is set for a final confrontation.
23 may, Friday / 18.30
Dani (Days) (Serbian Cinema)
(Alexandar Petrovic, Serbia) 1963. 79 min
A married woman is living an unexcited life, until she meets a man who is able to put a smile on her face again, at least for a couple of days.
Intimate Strangers (Shortfilms)
(Lara Persano, Argentina) 2013, 18 min
The love story of a man and a woman in the last day of their relationship.
23 may, Friday / 20.30
Africa the beat (Gypsy Films)
(Javier Arias, Polo Vallejo, Pablo Vega, Manuel Velasco)) Spain, 2012, 59 min
It develops in Nzali, an enclave in the heart of Tanzania where live the Wagogo, possessors of a unique musical universe. Each image takes us into the daily reality of its inhabitants at the same time that the music will gradually immersing us in an unexpected world of sensations.
To the other side (Shortfilms)
(Alicia Albares, Spain) 2013, 19 min
Sara Sanabria, writer, and his lover, Adolfo Santolaya, lived their lives absorbed by just one obsession: the belief that, hidden in an abandoned mansion, there was a gate that ended in an unkown dimension. Seeking the path of his retired teacher, Enrique will reach the place.
Presentation of the film "Africa the beat" by the directors Javier Arias , Pablo Vega.
Prestentation of the film "To the other side" by the director Alicia Albares.
24 may, Saturday / 18.00
Shephard of the paradise (Documentaries)
(Raja Shabir, India) 2013, 49 min
Seventy five year old Gafoor comes from a long line of shepherds, known as Bakerwals in Kashmir. The nomadic lifestyle is all that he has ever known. His life is very challenging. He has to rebuild his house on the mountains in Kashmir every year because of the damage from hostile weather.
Gafoor and his family has to travel from the plains of Jammu to the mountains of Kashmir in summer, covering a distance of almost 300 Kms on foot, and reverse the trip in winter, to graze the herd of 200 animals which include sheep, goats, a cow and a few ponies .
Open eyes (Shortfilms)
(Martín Aletta, Argentina), 2013, 15 min
In Tokyo, one of the cities with the highest rates of suicides and where people do not look in the eyes, a look between two strangers may change the direction of the day completely.
Trash (Documentaries)
(Sougata Bhattacharya, India) 2013, 20 min
The film maker starts a journey to the world of so called C-grade cinema. He takes one of his friend Shanku, whom he believed as a master of this genre during school days. They venture out to rediscover the lost world of ‘ Jawani series’…. Ultimately their journey ends up in a different story altogether that is more of a marginal entity engulfed by the common civilization crisis.
24 may, Saturday / 20.30
It was in may (Retrospective of M. Khutsiyev)
(Marlen Khutsiyev, Russia) 1979, 115 min
Russian soldiers are deployed on a German farm in the days in which will be signed the German surrender in World War II. The first moments of soldiers relationship with the woman of the farm are more than promising between jokes, misunderstandings with the language and dancing. Everything changes dramatically when the Regiment is ordered to inspect a concentration camp.
Ecce Homo o Exilio (Shortfilms)
(Belem de Oliveira, Brasil) 2013, 6 min
Poetic film about the condition of the man exiled in himself in search of answers to his existential issues, typical of the modern era.
Presentación of the film "It was in may" by the director Marlen Khutsiyev and producer Olga Bistrova.
25 may, Sunday / 18.00
Celluloid (Official Section)
(Kamal, India) 2013, 129 min
J.C. Daniel, long been reduced to a mere footnote in movie history is finally given the treatment he truly deserves and full credit goes to Kamal for bringing this lesser known icon of Malayalam cinema to life to this generation of audience. It is a tragic tale of a man who dared to chase his dreams and as a result found his whole world falling apart, for the sole reason that he was a man way ahead of his time. We are taken through the journey of a young J.C. Daniel, known as the maker of the first Malayalam movie, "Vigathakumaran" ("The Lost Child"), cheerful and enthusiastic, with stars in his eyes, who was determined to bring the art of movie-making to the Malayali shores, but soon turns into a person disillusioned with the world and his passion, and gradually becomes a shadow of the man he once was.
25 may, Sunday / 20.45
Nevechernyaya (Retrospective of M. Khutsiyev)
(Marlen Khutsiyev, Russia) 2010, 40 min
All important problems of Russia are discussed by Chekhov and Tolstoy.
Magnetism (Australian Cinema)
(Nakul Wagela, Australia) 2013, 17 min
A young clerk, Mark, is trapped in the claustrophobic vicious circle of a metropolitan contemporaneity. Not any basic pleasures of his life, including some romantic efforts attract him. A series of events forced him to address the burning issues of his life, will he find his truth?
From beyond (Shortfilms / Women in struggle)
(Rajbir Kaur, India) 2013, 10 min
An Indian girl dreams of a voice. Whenever she is about to catch her sleep just disappears. The voice always asks about the meaning of life.
Ustad Abdul Rashid Khan (Films from SRFTI)
(Mithila Hedge, India) 2013, 22 min
“My routine is Namaz and Art, Namaz and Art, Namaz and Art...”says Ustad Abdul Rashid Khan. At 105, he is the oldest living (and practising) Hindustani vocalist in the country. The film portrays his profound perspective on music, spirituality and life.
26 may, Monday / 20.30
María and the Spiderman (Official Section)
(María Victoria Menis) Argentina, 88 min, 2013
MARIA AND SPIDER is the story of María, a thirteen year old girl who lives in a Buenos Aires shantytown whit her grandmother and her obscure partner. Candidate for a scholarship to continue her education, María is finishing primary school, while working on the subway. There she´ll meet a 17-years boy.
Take back the fight
(Films from TISS/ Women in struggle)
(Likokba, Mrinal, Shruti, Sujatha) India, 2013, 27 min.
‘Look alert, don’t look like an easy target!’- Deesha’s martial art classes equip young girls to handle threatening situations that arise in the outside world and within their families. Tanvi’s identity straddles the worlds of an everyday college student and a learner of martial arts. In doing so, she stands out amongst her peers as someone who brings knowledge of the latter to the former. Finally, in the absence of a do’s and don’ts handbook of self-defence, Tanya negotiates her way around the city with conviction in her belief system, sometimes tainted with self-doubt but always maintaining a sense of humour through it all.
Take Back the Fight looks at three women, a martial arts instructor, a college student and a PR professional as they make their way through various public spaces in Mumbai. In the process, they question the safety discourses surrounding them and attempt to subvert the power structures within which they are located.
28 may, Wednesday / 20.30
Despite the Gods (Documentaries)
(Penny Vozniak, Poland) 2013, 52m
Prodigal daughter of cinema, Jennifer Lynch delves into the dangerous ground of making films in Bollywood, where chaos is the norm and film becomes a crash course in a self-affirmation and self-realization.
Where river meets the sea
(Films from SRFTI)
(Suman Majumder, India) 2013, 26 min
There was a father and his two daughters.after retirement and social responsibilities the father decides to leave home and goes to 'vanprastha'. The daughters comes close to eaother and starts finding the father. When they failed they collects the memories of fath and creates a dreamland.
30 may, Friday / 20.30
Varanasi, where the past is present
Spanish productions in India
(Andrés Roccatagliata, Spain) 2014, 59 min
Varanasi is a documentary of a travel done with camera in hand. An experience that is reflected through a camera that takes us to one of the oldest and most sacred city in the world. The city in the past and the present is an exceptional testimony to the living traditions of faith, ritual and innumerable festivals and ancient forms of worship and belief that still are in practice in the different expressions of music, dance and forms of art, from one to other generation.
Flashpoint (Films from TISS / Remember!)
(A. Lohrii Francis, Gurshimran Khamba, Mridula Chari, Shivani Gupta, INDIA) 2013, 18 min
Mohammed Ali Road and Mahim were among the more affected areas during the riots of 1992-1993. Twenty years later, this film takes the lens back to those areas to map the middle classes of those areas. Their lives, though not tangibly afflicted, were nonetheless transformed by that time enough to reflect in their attitudes towards communalism today. Prominent writer and journalist Dilip D’Souza, draws these narratives together as we try to make sense of stereotypes that persist even today.
Flashpoint is part of a series of films from the School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, which seek to revisit the city of Mumbai, twenty years after the communal violence of 1992-93. In a situation where justice has been elusive and the collective amnesia profound, the series attempts to remember and reflect on the events of that tragic period and its aftermath.
Dushwapno (Films from SRFTI / Women in struggle)
(Lubna Sharmin, India) 2013, 11 min
An invalid woman in wheelchair lives with her husband and daughter. And is aware of the frustration of her husband for this adversity, even when his behavior is wonderful. The woman tries her husband to marry another woman to make things easier. After the arrival of the new woman, things are not as they seemed.
Presentation of the film "Varanasi, where the past is present" by the director Andrés Roccatagliata.
31 may, Saturday / 18.00
Badalte nakshe (Films from TISS / Remember!)
(A.Sadar, L. Sangtam, N. Kanagasabai, N. Menon) India, 2013, 23 min
The communal violence of December 1992 and January 1993 in Mumbai, India, following the demolition of Babri Masjid on December 6, 1992 changed the city in many ways, reconfiguring its spaces, creating new divides, giving impetus to an on-going politics of hate and fundamentally altering the cosmopolitan fabric of the city. Badalte Nakshe is one of the six films in the Remembering 1992 series created collectively by the students and faculty of the School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences.
Traversing the tenuous realm of children, memory and Bombay’s 1992 communal riots, the film follows Farhana Ashraf, a teacher and a writer in an attempt to explore the constructed histories of two generations. 20 years after the riots, how do the people who were children then remember the lived experience of the riots? Moreover, how do adolescents of the present generation make meaning of these inherited narratives of violence from what they hear and see – through popular culture, text books etc. In an effort to articulate this on-going dialogue with the past and present, the film weave these two threads, bringing to the surface erasures, omissions and the ruptures they entail.
31 may, Saturday / 20.30
CLOSING GALA
CIRCULO DE BELLAS ARTES
29 may, Thursday / 19.30
Dhol ganwar pashu aru nari (Films from FTII)
(Abhinav Gupta) 2013. India. 20 min
The film "DHOL GANWAR PASHU ARU NARI" talks about the plight of women in the social structure. It is a fight they are
constantly fighting against the odd - the male. It is not
about the story of Tara and Phool, the characters in the
film. They are mere representatives of ‘their’ people.
The film tries to deal with the intense emotional turmoil of
a mother, who, having realised the odds, finds herself
helpless, but still tries to fight It out leading to an
unusual resolve.
July Rain (Retrospective of M. Khutsiyev)
(Marlen Khutsiyev) 1966. Russia. 107 min
It shows the time of the choice of a future way for the country. In fact the choice was already made in October 1964, when conformist climbers and unprincipled egotists (Volodya) took a lead of the Soviet society and eventually destroyed it. The most charming and human figure of the movie is Alik, played by the famous Russian bard Yuri Vizbor. Alik represents the honest and skeptical part of Soviet society, that didn't have much hope for the bright future and tried to enjoy the life, avoiding ranting and bargaining with the conscience.
29 may, Thursday / 22.00
23 Winters (Documentaries / Remember!)
(Rajesh S. Jala) 2013. India. 30 min
A film set in reality, played by a real protagonist, Bota, who lives a surreal life. A forced refugee from Kashmir, Bota is schizophrenic. This film glimpses through his traumatic past which haunts his exiled present. Nonetheless, his hopes are unvanquished.
Love and other crimes (Serbian Cinema)
(Stefan Arsenijevic) 2008. Serbia.106 min
An unsatisfied woman in her late 30s dreams about stealing the big cash and leaving the country. She meets a petty criminal ten years her junior who has the thing for her, and she asks herself is he the only true love of her life.
30 may, Friday / 18.45
I am Twenty (Retrospective of M. Khutsiyev)
(Marlen Khutsiyev) 1965. Russia. 164 min
The film deals with three school chums, Sergei, Slava and Nikolai. Sergei is returning to Moscow from his hitch in the Army to find that "you can't go home again" Slava is married and has a toddler. Nikolai is doing research at a scientific institute. Nikolai offers to find Sergei a job at the Institute, but Sergei decides to follow in his deceased father's (killed in battle at age 21 in 1943 during the Great patriotic War, aka WWII) footsteps and work at the local power plant.
Sergei finds that his relationships to people have changed. Slava is distanced from them by his marriage and family commitments, but still tries to be "one of the boys" Nikolai works hard, and flirts shamelessly in exchange. Sergei feels alone and uncomfortable, never really sure what he should be doing. He still lives in the same flat with his mother and younger sister, he goes to work each day and studies to be an engineer at night.
Presentation by the director Marlen Khutsiyev and the producer Olga Bistrova.
After the screening there will be Q&A with the director and producer.
30 may, Friday / 22.15
Mukhabir (Films from FTII)
(Manoj Kumar) 2013. India. 11 min
A night in the life of an informer who is double crossing the police and the ganglord for money and to get the woman he craves. He slides along various facets of his personality, exposing his cold and ruthless atributes along with his vulnerabilites while having an ongoing internal dialogue.
Kennedy goes back home (Serbian Cinema / Gypsy Films)
(Zelimir Zilnic) 2004. Serbia. 74 min
The documentary follows the lives of several Roma, two in particular, who have been deported from Germany to Belgrade, and inserted into economic and social situations totally alien to their previous experience. They complain of having all money and valuables confiscated upon arrival.
The two main characters both have very sympathetic stories. The first to be introduced has lost much in being deported, but has managed to buy a car and uses it to earn his livelihood. Hard-working and seemingly a good person, this guy is an example of how many advanced democracies' immigration policies need serious revision (not only Germany's).
31 may, Saturday / 19.30
Qafas (Shortfilms)
(Prateek Srivastava) 2013. India. 9 min
In a pet market where profit is the only concern, a shopkeeper having a rough day encounters a customer who has had a rough life.
Unfaded (Retrospective of M. Khutsiyev)
(Marlen Khutsiyev) 1983. Russia. 92 min
The story is simple. A husband's elderly father-in-law comes to visit his daughter and her husband. Unfortunately the wife leaves the city on business for a couple of weeks, and her husband is working on a dissertation at home. The husband is stuck with spending time and hosting the old man. The old man is filled with life, he sings, shouts, and seems to know everything about everything: tobacco, wine. He, basically, never shuts up; but he is kind and friendly. The husband tolerates him, and is happy to make him as comfortable as possible. But the old man starts to really irritate the husband. He always thinks he's right and always goes on and on. He knows 5 languages and has traveled the world, so he has much to say. The story is narrated scarcely by the husband who says the events took place a year ago.
17 may, Saturday / 19.30 Sala1
20 may, Tuesday / 22.00 Sala 1
Apur Panchali (Official Section)
(Kaushik Ganguly, 2013). Cast : Ardhendu Banerjee, Parambrata Chatterjee, Parno Mitra. India. DCP. 97'
Subir Banerjee at a tender age went on to deliver an impressionable performance as Apu in Pather Panchali which is listed amongst the 100 greatest films of all time. The boy who grew up never to act again in films has striking similarities with the journey of the ‘reel’ Apu. Many of the incidents shown from Subir’s life reflect Apu’s loss and tragedy in the film. Ardhendu Banerjee plays Subir in his dotage. The actor’s performance is earthy and honest which is much necessary to show the character’s internal conflict.
18 may, Sunday / 22.00 Sala1
21 may, Wednesday / 19.30 Sala 1
Parviz (Official Section)
(Majid Barzegar, 2013). Cast : Levon Haftvan, Homeira Nonahali, Mahmoud Behrouzian. Irán. 107'
Despite his 50 years Parviz still lives off his father and the two men don’t get on very well. Things come to a head when the father tells his son he has decided to remarry. Parviz has no other choice but surrender his place to his step-mother and leave home. Parviz finds it difficult to get used to this new solitary life far from his neighborhood and the people he knows. He thus concocts a novel way of fighting back against the injustice done to him.
22 may, Thursday / 19.00 Sala 2
25 may, Sunday / 20.00 Sala 2
Salma (Official Section / Women in struggle)
(Kim Longinotto, 2013) Documentary. Great Britain. 91'
When Salma, a young Muslim girl in a south Indian village, was 13 years old, her family locked her up for 25 years, forbidding her to study and forcing her into marriage. During that time, words were Salma's salvation. She began covertly composing poems on scraps of paper and, through an intricate system, was able to sneak them out of the house, eventually getting them into the hands of a publisher. Against the odds, Salma became the most famous Tamil poet: the first step to discovering her own freedom and challenging the traditions and code of conduct in her village.
As with her other work (Pink Saris, Rough Aunties), master documentarian Kim Longinotto trains her camera on an iconoclastic woman. Salma's extraordinary story is one of courage and resilience, and Longinotto follows her on an eye-opening trip back to her village. Salma has hopes for a different life for the next generation of girls, but as she witnesses, familial ties run deep, and change happens very slowly.
Presentation by ELENA BALLESTEROS (25 may)
22 may, Thursday / 19.00 Sala 1
The King Is Dead! (Official Section / Australian cinema)
(Rolf de Heer, 2012). Cast : Bojana Novakovic, Dan Wyllie, Gary Waddell. Australia. B-R. 106'
Open inspection at the house-for-sale in the quiet, leafy neighbourhood...Max, science teacher, and Therese, tax accountant, decide that here is the house for them. Unsuspecting, they buy and move in, finding a nice family on one side and, well, "interesting" on the other. But interesting soon becomes loud, and loud soon becomes intolerable and when the intolerable becomes the violent, and the police are powerless to do anything, and the community lawyer suggests ear plugs, Max and Therese are forced to try and solve the problem of the neighbour from hell themselves...and end up with a corpse on their hands. But even that's not the worst of it, because the corpse from hell has friends...and even worse, enemies...
23 may, Friday / 20.00 Sala 2
Gulabi Gang (Official Section / Women in struggle)
(Nishtha Jain, 2012). Documentary. India. B-R. 96'
The district is Banda, and the region, Bundelkhand, in UP. And an organization that has steadily been a media magnet for what it has managed to do: in the rural backwaters of North India, where years of heavy-handed, violent patriarchy has stunted the growth of women and killed the girl child, a woman has taken on all comers. ‘Gulabi Gang’, Nishtha Jain’s award-winning documentary gives us an up-close view of Sampat Pal and her gang, which dons pink ‘saris’, and hefts ‘lathis’, and fights against injustice where it is most needed.
Presentation by ALBA FLORES
24 may, Saturday / 21.40 Sala 1
Algorithms (Official Section)
(Ian McDonald, 2012). Documentary. India. 96'
In India, a group of boys dream of becoming Chess Masters, driven by a man with a vision. But this is no ordinary chess and these are no ordinary players. Algorithms is a documentary on the thriving but little known world of Blind Chess in India.
Filmed over three years, Algorithms travels with three talented boys and a totally blind player turned pioneer to competitive national and world championships and visits them in their home milieu where they reveal their struggles, anxieties and hopes.
Going beyond sight and story, this observational sport doc with a difference moves through the algorithms of the blind chess world challenging the sighted of what it means to see. It allows for the tactile and thoughtful journey that explores foresight, sight and vision to continue long after the moving image ends.
27 may, Tuesday / 20.30 Sala 2
Ankhon Dekhi (Official Section)
(Rajat Kapoor, 2014). Cast : Sanjay Mishra, Seema Pahwa, Rajat Kapoor. India. 146'
Bauji (Sanjay Mishra) lives with his younger brother (Rajat Kapoor) in one of those cramped first floor quarters, more hovel than ‘haveli’, in Old Delhi’s Fatehpuri area. It has a ‘chhatt’ with ‘janglas’, tiny rooms adjacent to each other, a makeshift kitchen, and a common toilet. The family is joint at the hip in more ways than one, which is evident right from the first scene when Bauji’s daughter Rita (Maya Sarao ) is found to be in a relationship with an allegedly disreputable boy (Namit Das), and all hell breaks loose.
Presentation by Rajat Kapoor and Alba Flores.
28 may, Wednesday / 19.30 Sala 1
31 may, Saturday / 20.00 Sala 2
Spring at Zarechnoy street (Retrospective of M. Khutsiyev)
(Marlen Khutsiev, Feliks Mironer, 1956). Cast : Nina Ivanova, Nikolai Rybnikov, Vladimir Gulyaev. URSS. 94'
An idealistic, sophisticated young woman meets a rough-around-the-edges, blue collar man and rejects him, only to find out later that they are destined for true love together, despite the fact that he cannot now pass his certification test after she threw him out of her adult education class.
With the presentation of Marlen Khutsiev and Miguel Marías. (28 may)
29 may, Thursday / 21.10 Sala 1
Jinjin (Official Section)
(Daiki Yamada, 2013). Cast : Yasuo Daichi, Emily Aihara, Miu Arai. Japan. 129'
Street performer Ginzaburo Tateishi has a daughter. When his daughter was 6-years-old, he divorced his wife and has not seen his daughter since then.
One day, Ginzaburo Tateishi visits a farm run by his childhood friend. There, Ginzaburo meets four female high school students who came to the farm for agricultural training. Ginzaburo becomes close to the female students, except for one student named Ayaka. Soon, Ginzaburo discovers her secret.
Presentation by the team of the film :
KOKI SHIMIZU (Vicemajor of Kenbuchi)
NAOTO IGARASHI (Journalist)
DAIKI YAMADA (Director)
JIRO NODAKE (Distribution Producer)
TOMOKO OOI (Domestic Sales)
KEIKO ITO (Overseas Sales)
CINETECA EL MATADERO
17 may, Saturday / 17.30
El aire hace que las cosas se muevan (Shortfilms / Remember!)
(Emilia Ruiz) Spain, 2013, 10 min
Sophie-Marie has just arrived to the Couiza-Montazels shelter in France as voluntary. The suffocated summer weather makes Sophie-marie to walk around to get some brize. She met María, a spanish refugee who has not yet spoken to her.
TRI (Three) (Serbian Cinema)
(Alexandar Petrovic, Serbia) 1965. 80 min.
Three stories are set at the beginning, middle and the end of WW2. In all three of them the hero of the movie must witness the death of people he likes. The film was nominated for the oscars by Yugoslavia.
17 may, Saturday / 21.00
KLOPKA (The trap) (Serbian Cinema)
(Srdan Golubovic) Serbia, 2007, 106 min.
"THE TRAP" is a modern film noir reflecting the true face of Serbian (Eastern European) 'society in transition.' It's a story that could happen to you. It is a film about an ordinary man, who is forced to choose between life and death of his own child. THE TRAP is a film about post-Milosevic's Serbia, in which there is no more war, but there is moral and existential desert, about Serbia in transition, in which human life still doesn't worth a lot, about normal life which still seems unreachable.
18 may, Sunday / 18.00
AJANTRIK (Unmechanical) (Retrospective of Ritwik Ghatak)
(Ritwik Ghatak, India) 1958, 102 min
"They call me a machine, they don't understand that Jaggadal is also a human". The complex interaction between nature, mankind and the machine in the backdrop of an harsh and rocky wasteland of Bihar comes the unique story of Jaggadal. Though the name is masculine but the car is definitely feminine as illuminated in the movie. This is the masterstroke of Ritwik and could well be his defining work. No other movie captured this relationship between a man and his machine as have been done here. All later movies based on such theme will be pale including the most recent AI. Only a vagabond and an insane be so ungrateful and unemotional to something which have been making a living for him for so many years. A point proved in Ajantrik.
JE RAATE (Filmes de SRFTI / Remember!)
(Prajna Dutta, India) 2013, 9 min
Je Raate traces the dynamics among a group of characters on the night of 14 August 1947 sharing the same predicament of separation.
18 may, Sunday / 20.30
La sombra de la madre (Spanish productions in India)
(Ramón López, Spain) 2012, 72 min
The true story of a young woman born in India who after being adopted in Spain, returns 20 years later to the orphanage where she was adopted in search of her biological mother. A hard experience that will take her to wonder why we are so? Why things happen in this way?
Mokama fast passenger (Films from SRFTI)
(Subhadro Choudhury, India) 2013, 24 min
Mohan is a labour contractor, who works for a construction company. He shares a relation with Sabita in the city. On the contrary, Rakhi and her father-in-law waits in the village for Mohan to return. Occasional money order comes but Mohan doesn’t return. Rakhi finds escapade from her daily mundane life, when she goes to feed Jogi, a truck driver. They share a silent relation. One day, Mohan plans to leave the city. He catches a train to his village
Presentation of the film "La sombra de la madre" by the director Ramón López.
19 may, Sunday / 20.30
Mirch masala (Women in struggle)
(Ketan Mehta, India) 1987, 128 min
In colonial India, subedars (tax collectors) went from village to village, with soldiers, often demanding more than taxes. A subedar commands Sonbai, a beautiful and confidant women whose husband is away in the city, to sleep with him. She slaps him and flees for safety to a spice factory where women grind chillies into fine powder. The aged factory guard, Abu Mian, locks the door behind her, refusing to open it to the soldiers, to the cowardly village men led by the mayor, and to the subedar himself. The town's teacher, who follows Gandhi, and a few women, led by the mayor's wife, protest ineffectually against this village-approved rape. The stage is set for a final confrontation.
23 may, Friday / 18.30
Dani (Days) (Serbian Cinema)
(Alexandar Petrovic, Serbia) 1963. 79 min
A married woman is living an unexcited life, until she meets a man who is able to put a smile on her face again, at least for a couple of days.
Intimate Strangers (Shortfilms)
(Lara Persano, Argentina) 2013, 18 min
The love story of a man and a woman in the last day of their relationship.
23 may, Friday / 20.30
Africa the beat (Gypsy Films)
(Javier Arias, Polo Vallejo, Pablo Vega, Manuel Velasco)) Spain, 2012, 59 min
It develops in Nzali, an enclave in the heart of Tanzania where live the Wagogo, possessors of a unique musical universe. Each image takes us into the daily reality of its inhabitants at the same time that the music will gradually immersing us in an unexpected world of sensations.
To the other side (Shortfilms)
(Alicia Albares, Spain) 2013, 19 min
Sara Sanabria, writer, and his lover, Adolfo Santolaya, lived their lives absorbed by just one obsession: the belief that, hidden in an abandoned mansion, there was a gate that ended in an unkown dimension. Seeking the path of his retired teacher, Enrique will reach the place.
Presentation of the film "Africa the beat" by the directors Javier Arias , Pablo Vega.
Prestentation of the film "To the other side" by the director Alicia Albares.
24 may, Saturday / 18.00
Shephard of the paradise (Documentaries)
(Raja Shabir, India) 2013, 49 min
Seventy five year old Gafoor comes from a long line of shepherds, known as Bakerwals in Kashmir. The nomadic lifestyle is all that he has ever known. His life is very challenging. He has to rebuild his house on the mountains in Kashmir every year because of the damage from hostile weather.
Gafoor and his family has to travel from the plains of Jammu to the mountains of Kashmir in summer, covering a distance of almost 300 Kms on foot, and reverse the trip in winter, to graze the herd of 200 animals which include sheep, goats, a cow and a few ponies .
Open eyes (Shortfilms)
(Martín Aletta, Argentina), 2013, 15 min
In Tokyo, one of the cities with the highest rates of suicides and where people do not look in the eyes, a look between two strangers may change the direction of the day completely.
Trash (Documentaries)
(Sougata Bhattacharya, India) 2013, 20 min
The film maker starts a journey to the world of so called C-grade cinema. He takes one of his friend Shanku, whom he believed as a master of this genre during school days. They venture out to rediscover the lost world of ‘ Jawani series’…. Ultimately their journey ends up in a different story altogether that is more of a marginal entity engulfed by the common civilization crisis.
24 may, Saturday / 20.30
It was in may (Retrospective of M. Khutsiyev)
(Marlen Khutsiyev, Russia) 1979, 115 min
Russian soldiers are deployed on a German farm in the days in which will be signed the German surrender in World War II. The first moments of soldiers relationship with the woman of the farm are more than promising between jokes, misunderstandings with the language and dancing. Everything changes dramatically when the Regiment is ordered to inspect a concentration camp.
Ecce Homo o Exilio (Shortfilms)
(Belem de Oliveira, Brasil) 2013, 6 min
Poetic film about the condition of the man exiled in himself in search of answers to his existential issues, typical of the modern era.
Presentación of the film "It was in may" by the director Marlen Khutsiyev and producer Olga Bistrova.
25 may, Sunday / 18.00
Celluloid (Official Section)
(Kamal, India) 2013, 129 min
J.C. Daniel, long been reduced to a mere footnote in movie history is finally given the treatment he truly deserves and full credit goes to Kamal for bringing this lesser known icon of Malayalam cinema to life to this generation of audience. It is a tragic tale of a man who dared to chase his dreams and as a result found his whole world falling apart, for the sole reason that he was a man way ahead of his time. We are taken through the journey of a young J.C. Daniel, known as the maker of the first Malayalam movie, "Vigathakumaran" ("The Lost Child"), cheerful and enthusiastic, with stars in his eyes, who was determined to bring the art of movie-making to the Malayali shores, but soon turns into a person disillusioned with the world and his passion, and gradually becomes a shadow of the man he once was.
25 may, Sunday / 20.45
Nevechernyaya (Retrospective of M. Khutsiyev)
(Marlen Khutsiyev, Russia) 2010, 40 min
All important problems of Russia are discussed by Chekhov and Tolstoy.
Magnetism (Australian Cinema)
(Nakul Wagela, Australia) 2013, 17 min
A young clerk, Mark, is trapped in the claustrophobic vicious circle of a metropolitan contemporaneity. Not any basic pleasures of his life, including some romantic efforts attract him. A series of events forced him to address the burning issues of his life, will he find his truth?
From beyond (Shortfilms / Women in struggle)
(Rajbir Kaur, India) 2013, 10 min
An Indian girl dreams of a voice. Whenever she is about to catch her sleep just disappears. The voice always asks about the meaning of life.
Ustad Abdul Rashid Khan (Films from SRFTI)
(Mithila Hedge, India) 2013, 22 min
“My routine is Namaz and Art, Namaz and Art, Namaz and Art...”says Ustad Abdul Rashid Khan. At 105, he is the oldest living (and practising) Hindustani vocalist in the country. The film portrays his profound perspective on music, spirituality and life.
26 may, Monday / 20.30
María and the Spiderman (Official Section)
(María Victoria Menis) Argentina, 88 min, 2013
MARIA AND SPIDER is the story of María, a thirteen year old girl who lives in a Buenos Aires shantytown whit her grandmother and her obscure partner. Candidate for a scholarship to continue her education, María is finishing primary school, while working on the subway. There she´ll meet a 17-years boy.
Take back the fight
(Films from TISS/ Women in struggle)
(Likokba, Mrinal, Shruti, Sujatha) India, 2013, 27 min.
‘Look alert, don’t look like an easy target!’- Deesha’s martial art classes equip young girls to handle threatening situations that arise in the outside world and within their families. Tanvi’s identity straddles the worlds of an everyday college student and a learner of martial arts. In doing so, she stands out amongst her peers as someone who brings knowledge of the latter to the former. Finally, in the absence of a do’s and don’ts handbook of self-defence, Tanya negotiates her way around the city with conviction in her belief system, sometimes tainted with self-doubt but always maintaining a sense of humour through it all.
Take Back the Fight looks at three women, a martial arts instructor, a college student and a PR professional as they make their way through various public spaces in Mumbai. In the process, they question the safety discourses surrounding them and attempt to subvert the power structures within which they are located.
28 may, Wednesday / 20.30
Despite the Gods (Documentaries)
(Penny Vozniak, Poland) 2013, 52m
Prodigal daughter of cinema, Jennifer Lynch delves into the dangerous ground of making films in Bollywood, where chaos is the norm and film becomes a crash course in a self-affirmation and self-realization.
Where river meets the sea
(Films from SRFTI)
(Suman Majumder, India) 2013, 26 min
There was a father and his two daughters.after retirement and social responsibilities the father decides to leave home and goes to 'vanprastha'. The daughters comes close to eaother and starts finding the father. When they failed they collects the memories of fath and creates a dreamland.
30 may, Friday / 20.30
Varanasi, where the past is present
Spanish productions in India
(Andrés Roccatagliata, Spain) 2014, 59 min
Varanasi is a documentary of a travel done with camera in hand. An experience that is reflected through a camera that takes us to one of the oldest and most sacred city in the world. The city in the past and the present is an exceptional testimony to the living traditions of faith, ritual and innumerable festivals and ancient forms of worship and belief that still are in practice in the different expressions of music, dance and forms of art, from one to other generation.
Flashpoint (Films from TISS / Remember!)
(A. Lohrii Francis, Gurshimran Khamba, Mridula Chari, Shivani Gupta, INDIA) 2013, 18 min
Mohammed Ali Road and Mahim were among the more affected areas during the riots of 1992-1993. Twenty years later, this film takes the lens back to those areas to map the middle classes of those areas. Their lives, though not tangibly afflicted, were nonetheless transformed by that time enough to reflect in their attitudes towards communalism today. Prominent writer and journalist Dilip D’Souza, draws these narratives together as we try to make sense of stereotypes that persist even today.
Flashpoint is part of a series of films from the School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, which seek to revisit the city of Mumbai, twenty years after the communal violence of 1992-93. In a situation where justice has been elusive and the collective amnesia profound, the series attempts to remember and reflect on the events of that tragic period and its aftermath.
Dushwapno (Films from SRFTI / Women in struggle)
(Lubna Sharmin, India) 2013, 11 min
An invalid woman in wheelchair lives with her husband and daughter. And is aware of the frustration of her husband for this adversity, even when his behavior is wonderful. The woman tries her husband to marry another woman to make things easier. After the arrival of the new woman, things are not as they seemed.
Presentation of the film "Varanasi, where the past is present" by the director Andrés Roccatagliata.
31 may, Saturday / 18.00
Badalte nakshe (Films from TISS / Remember!)
(A.Sadar, L. Sangtam, N. Kanagasabai, N. Menon) India, 2013, 23 min
The communal violence of December 1992 and January 1993 in Mumbai, India, following the demolition of Babri Masjid on December 6, 1992 changed the city in many ways, reconfiguring its spaces, creating new divides, giving impetus to an on-going politics of hate and fundamentally altering the cosmopolitan fabric of the city. Badalte Nakshe is one of the six films in the Remembering 1992 series created collectively by the students and faculty of the School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences.
Traversing the tenuous realm of children, memory and Bombay’s 1992 communal riots, the film follows Farhana Ashraf, a teacher and a writer in an attempt to explore the constructed histories of two generations. 20 years after the riots, how do the people who were children then remember the lived experience of the riots? Moreover, how do adolescents of the present generation make meaning of these inherited narratives of violence from what they hear and see – through popular culture, text books etc. In an effort to articulate this on-going dialogue with the past and present, the film weave these two threads, bringing to the surface erasures, omissions and the ruptures they entail.
31 may, Saturday / 20.30
CLOSING GALA
CIRCULO DE BELLAS ARTES
29 may, Thursday / 19.30
Dhol ganwar pashu aru nari (Films from FTII)
(Abhinav Gupta) 2013. India. 20 min
The film "DHOL GANWAR PASHU ARU NARI" talks about the plight of women in the social structure. It is a fight they are
constantly fighting against the odd - the male. It is not
about the story of Tara and Phool, the characters in the
film. They are mere representatives of ‘their’ people.
The film tries to deal with the intense emotional turmoil of
a mother, who, having realised the odds, finds herself
helpless, but still tries to fight It out leading to an
unusual resolve.
July Rain (Retrospective of M. Khutsiyev)
(Marlen Khutsiyev) 1966. Russia. 107 min
It shows the time of the choice of a future way for the country. In fact the choice was already made in October 1964, when conformist climbers and unprincipled egotists (Volodya) took a lead of the Soviet society and eventually destroyed it. The most charming and human figure of the movie is Alik, played by the famous Russian bard Yuri Vizbor. Alik represents the honest and skeptical part of Soviet society, that didn't have much hope for the bright future and tried to enjoy the life, avoiding ranting and bargaining with the conscience.
29 may, Thursday / 22.00
23 Winters (Documentaries / Remember!)
(Rajesh S. Jala) 2013. India. 30 min
A film set in reality, played by a real protagonist, Bota, who lives a surreal life. A forced refugee from Kashmir, Bota is schizophrenic. This film glimpses through his traumatic past which haunts his exiled present. Nonetheless, his hopes are unvanquished.
Love and other crimes (Serbian Cinema)
(Stefan Arsenijevic) 2008. Serbia.106 min
An unsatisfied woman in her late 30s dreams about stealing the big cash and leaving the country. She meets a petty criminal ten years her junior who has the thing for her, and she asks herself is he the only true love of her life.
30 may, Friday / 18.45
I am Twenty (Retrospective of M. Khutsiyev)
(Marlen Khutsiyev) 1965. Russia. 164 min
The film deals with three school chums, Sergei, Slava and Nikolai. Sergei is returning to Moscow from his hitch in the Army to find that "you can't go home again" Slava is married and has a toddler. Nikolai is doing research at a scientific institute. Nikolai offers to find Sergei a job at the Institute, but Sergei decides to follow in his deceased father's (killed in battle at age 21 in 1943 during the Great patriotic War, aka WWII) footsteps and work at the local power plant.
Sergei finds that his relationships to people have changed. Slava is distanced from them by his marriage and family commitments, but still tries to be "one of the boys" Nikolai works hard, and flirts shamelessly in exchange. Sergei feels alone and uncomfortable, never really sure what he should be doing. He still lives in the same flat with his mother and younger sister, he goes to work each day and studies to be an engineer at night.
Presentation by the director Marlen Khutsiyev and the producer Olga Bistrova.
After the screening there will be Q&A with the director and producer.
30 may, Friday / 22.15
Mukhabir (Films from FTII)
(Manoj Kumar) 2013. India. 11 min
A night in the life of an informer who is double crossing the police and the ganglord for money and to get the woman he craves. He slides along various facets of his personality, exposing his cold and ruthless atributes along with his vulnerabilites while having an ongoing internal dialogue.
Kennedy goes back home (Serbian Cinema / Gypsy Films)
(Zelimir Zilnic) 2004. Serbia. 74 min
The documentary follows the lives of several Roma, two in particular, who have been deported from Germany to Belgrade, and inserted into economic and social situations totally alien to their previous experience. They complain of having all money and valuables confiscated upon arrival.
The two main characters both have very sympathetic stories. The first to be introduced has lost much in being deported, but has managed to buy a car and uses it to earn his livelihood. Hard-working and seemingly a good person, this guy is an example of how many advanced democracies' immigration policies need serious revision (not only Germany's).
31 may, Saturday / 19.30
Qafas (Shortfilms)
(Prateek Srivastava) 2013. India. 9 min
In a pet market where profit is the only concern, a shopkeeper having a rough day encounters a customer who has had a rough life.
Unfaded (Retrospective of M. Khutsiyev)
(Marlen Khutsiyev) 1983. Russia. 92 min
The story is simple. A husband's elderly father-in-law comes to visit his daughter and her husband. Unfortunately the wife leaves the city on business for a couple of weeks, and her husband is working on a dissertation at home. The husband is stuck with spending time and hosting the old man. The old man is filled with life, he sings, shouts, and seems to know everything about everything: tobacco, wine. He, basically, never shuts up; but he is kind and friendly. The husband tolerates him, and is happy to make him as comfortable as possible. But the old man starts to really irritate the husband. He always thinks he's right and always goes on and on. He knows 5 languages and has traveled the world, so he has much to say. The story is narrated scarcely by the husband who says the events took place a year ago.
