Thread by @satysingh

This thread introduces to you some of the hottest titles playing @MumbaiFilmFest this year. Perhaps it may help you make your choices out of the several options you have.

Caution: This thread will be long. Blame #JioMAMIwithStar2019 for coming up with such wonderful line-up. :)

@MumbaiFilmFest I have to start with this.

The 25th feature film by Martin Scorsese. Starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci.

'The Irishman'

It will be out on @netflix in November. But don't wait for that. Watch it at @MumbaiFilmFest

@MumbaiFilmFest @netflix 'Pain and Glory' by Pedro Almodovar ('Talk to Her', 'All About My Mother', 'Volver', 'Carne Tremula')

The film has won awards for music and for actor Antonio Banderas @Festival_Cannes

Spain's #Oscar entry this year.

@MumbaiFilmFest @netflix @Festival_Cannes 'Sorry We Missed You'

The latest film by 83-year old British legend, Ken Loach.

('Kes', 'I, Daniel Blake', 'The Wind That Shakes the Barley')

@MumbaiFilmFest @netflix @Festival_Cannes 'The Souvenir' by Joanna Hogg

Winner: World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize @sundancefest

@MumbaiFilmFest @netflix @Festival_Cannes @sundancefest 'The Golden Glove' by the Turkish-German filmmaker Fatih Akin ('Head-On', 'The Edge of Heaven', 'In the Fade')

This one may generate very strong reactions here at MAMI.

@MumbaiFilmFest @netflix @Festival_Cannes @sundancefest 'The Whistlers' by Corneliu Porumboiu ('12:08 East of Bucharest', 'Police, Adjective', 'The Treasure')

Romania's #Oscar entry

@MumbaiFilmFest @netflix @Festival_Cannes @sundancefest 'Young Ahmed' by the Belgian duo of Dardenne Brothers ('Rosetta', 'The Son', 'Two Days, One Night')

The film won Best Director @Festival_Cannes this year.

@MumbaiFilmFest @netflix @Festival_Cannes @sundancefest 'The Dead Don't Die'

by Jim Jarmusch ('Stranger than Paradise', 'Down by Law', 'Mystery Train', 'Ghost Dog', 'Coffee and Cigarettes', 'Paterson', 'Only Lovers Left Alive', 'Broken Flowers')

@MumbaiFilmFest @netflix @Festival_Cannes @sundancefest 'Atlantics' by Mati Diop

The film won the Grand Prix @Festival_Cannes and is Senegal's #Oscar entry.

Mati Diop played the female lead in Claire Denis' '35 Shots of Rum'. With 'Atlantics', she became the first black woman director to have a film in competition at Cannes.

@MumbaiFilmFest @netflix @Festival_Cannes @sundancefest 'It Must Be Heaven' by Elia Suleiman

The film won a Special Mention at
@Festival_Cannes
and is Palestine's #Oscar entry.

It stars Suleiman along with Gael Garcia Bernal

@MumbaiFilmFest @netflix @Festival_Cannes @sundancefest 'Family Romance, LLC' - a Japanese-language drama

by the German master Werner Herzog ('Aguirre, the Wrath of God', 'The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser', 'Fitzcarraldo')

@MumbaiFilmFest @netflix @Festival_Cannes @sundancefest 'By the Grace of God'

by Francois Ozon ('8 Women', 'Under the Sand', 'Potiche')

The film won Jury Grand Prix at @berlinale

@MumbaiFilmFest @netflix @Festival_Cannes @sundancefest @berlinale 'Bacurau'

by Kleber Mendonca Filho ('Neighboring Sounds', 'Aquarius') and Juliano Dornelles

Winner of Jury Prize @Festival_Cannes

@IsStevens describes this as a 'weird western'. If that it means what I think it means, this movie is gonna kick ass.

@MumbaiFilmFest @netflix @Festival_Cannes @sundancefest @berlinale @IsStevens Brad Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones in

'Ad Astra'

by James Gray ('Two Lovers', 'The Lost City of Z')

Cinematography by Hoyte van Hoytema ('Her', 'Interstellar', 'Dunkirk', 'Spectre')

@MumbaiFilmFest @netflix @Festival_Cannes @sundancefest @berlinale @IsStevens The director of 'Hereditary' is back with a folk-horror.

'Midsommar' by Ari Aster

Iss baar @MumbaiFilmFest mein horror, thriller aur crime movies ka qatl-e-aam machne waala hai bhai! Kaafi sahi!!

@MumbaiFilmFest @netflix @Festival_Cannes @sundancefest @berlinale @IsStevens 'Marriage Story'

by Noah Baumbach ('Frances Ha', 'The Squid and the Whale')

Starring Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver, Laura Dern

Audience Choice Second Best Film @TIFF_NET

@MumbaiFilmFest @netflix @Festival_Cannes @sundancefest @berlinale @IsStevens @TIFF_NET 'Little Joe' by Jessica Hausner

Best Actress award @Festival_Cannes to Emily Beecham

@MumbaiFilmFest @netflix @Festival_Cannes @sundancefest @berlinale @IsStevens @TIFF_NET France's #Oscar entry

'Les Miserables' by Ladj Ly

Jury Prize Winner @Festival_Cannes

@MumbaiFilmFest @netflix @Festival_Cannes @sundancefest @berlinale @IsStevens @TIFF_NET 'I Lost My Body' by Jeremy Clapin

This looks like a very interesting animation feature.

@MumbaiFilmFest @netflix @Festival_Cannes @sundancefest @berlinale @IsStevens @TIFF_NET 'Honey Boy' by Alma Har'el

Screenplay by Shia LaBeouf. Also starring Lucas Hedges.

@MumbaiFilmFest @netflix @Festival_Cannes @sundancefest @berlinale @IsStevens @TIFF_NET 'Ghost Town Anthology' by Denis Cote ('Vic + Flo Saw a Bear')

@MumbaiFilmFest @netflix @Festival_Cannes @sundancefest @berlinale @IsStevens @TIFF_NET 'Synonyms' by Nadav Lapid

Golden Bear and FIPRESCI Prize Winner @berlinale this year.

@MumbaiFilmFest @netflix @Festival_Cannes @sundancefest @berlinale @IsStevens @TIFF_NET 7 years after 'Spring Breakers', Harmony Korine is back with 'The Beach Bum'.

Starring Matthew McConaughey, Snoop Dogg and Jonah Hill. A stoner comedy, this will divide audience.

@MumbaiFilmFest @netflix @Festival_Cannes @sundancefest @berlinale @IsStevens @TIFF_NET 'The Halt'

The latest by Lav Diaz is among his shorter films, at four and half hours. His filmography boasts of:

'From What is Before' (almost 6 hours),
'Melancholia' (7 and half hours),
'Heremias' (9 hours)
'Evolution of a Filipino Family' (9 hours)

@MumbaiFilmFest @netflix @Festival_Cannes @sundancefest @berlinale @IsStevens @TIFF_NET 'Zombi Child'

by Bertrand Bonello ('Nocturama', 'The Pornographer', 'Saint Laurent')

@MumbaiFilmFest @netflix @Festival_Cannes @sundancefest @berlinale @IsStevens @TIFF_NET 'Wasp Network'

by Olivier Assayas ('Something in the Air', 'Clouds of Sils Maria, 'Personal Shopper', 'Non-Fiction', 'Summer Hours')

Starring Penelope Cruz, Gael Garcia Bernal

@MumbaiFilmFest @netflix @Festival_Cannes @sundancefest @berlinale @IsStevens @TIFF_NET 'Vitalina Varela'

by Pedro Costa ('Colossal Youth', 'Horse Money', 'In Vanda's Room')

Golden Leopard and Best Actress winner @FilmFestLocarno. Also, the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury.

@MumbaiFilmFest @netflix @Festival_Cannes @sundancefest @berlinale @IsStevens @TIFF_NET @FilmFestLocarno We lost Agnes Varda six months ago. @MumbaiFilmFest brings her final film to us.

'Varda By Agnes'

This too is a documentary after the endearing, inventive and personal 'The Gleaners & I' and 'Faces Places'.

@MumbaiFilmFest @netflix @Festival_Cannes @sundancefest @berlinale @IsStevens @TIFF_NET @FilmFestLocarno 'The Two Popes'

by Fernando Meirelles ('City of God', 'The Constant Gardener')

Starring Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce

@MumbaiFilmFest @netflix @Festival_Cannes @sundancefest @berlinale @IsStevens @TIFF_NET @FilmFestLocarno Tunisian film 'A Son' by Mehdi M. Barsaoui

Best Actor (@la_Biennale Venice Horizons) Award to Sami Bouajila

@MumbaiFilmFest @netflix @Festival_Cannes @sundancefest @berlinale @IsStevens @TIFF_NET @FilmFestLocarno @la_Biennale 'Buoyancy' by Rodd Rathjen

This film, in Khmer and Thai languages, is Australia's #Oscar entry this year.

@MumbaiFilmFest @netflix @Festival_Cannes @sundancefest @berlinale @IsStevens @TIFF_NET @FilmFestLocarno @la_Biennale 'Die Kinder der Toten' from Austria

by Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska

Winner of FIPRESCI Prize @berlinale

@MumbaiFilmFest @netflix @Festival_Cannes @sundancefest @berlinale @IsStevens @TIFF_NET @FilmFestLocarno @la_Biennale 'Honeyland' by Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska

Macedonia's #Oscar entry.

This documentary won three awards @sundancefest, including Grand Jury Prize and for its cinematography. Since then it has been travelling all over the world, collecting more awards.

@MumbaiFilmFest @netflix @Festival_Cannes @sundancefest @berlinale @IsStevens @TIFF_NET @FilmFestLocarno @la_Biennale 'System Crasher' by Nora Fingscheidt

Germany's #Oscar entry

The film has won several awards, including the Alfred Bauer Prize @berlinale. Every year this award is given to a film that "opens new perspectives on cinematic art".

@MumbaiFilmFest @netflix @Festival_Cannes @sundancefest @berlinale @IsStevens @TIFF_NET @FilmFestLocarno @la_Biennale 'Talking About Trees' by Suhaib Gasmelbari

Winner of several awards, including the Panorama Audience Award @berlinale

This documentary tells the story of four older Sudanese filmmakers who battle to bring cinema-going back to Sudan. I won't miss this one.

@MumbaiFilmFest @netflix @Festival_Cannes @sundancefest @berlinale @IsStevens @TIFF_NET @FilmFestLocarno @la_Biennale 4K Restored Print of this Horror Classic.

I am not going to miss this!

Also, what an opportunity for those who'll be watching this film for the first time, to watch it on big screen.

@MumbaiFilmFest @netflix @Festival_Cannes @sundancefest @berlinale @IsStevens @TIFF_NET @FilmFestLocarno @la_Biennale There are more classics playing at @MumbaiFilmFest

'The Cremator' (1969) by Juraj Herz
'Bhuvan Shome' (1969) by Mrinal Sen
'Blue Velvet' (1986) by David Lynch
'Satantango' (1994) by Bela Tarr