Miskolc International Film Festival 2017

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The Ciambra The Ciambra
The Ciambra and Good Time
Arrhythmia (Aritmiya) (Country: Russia, Finland, Germany; Year: 2017; Director: Boris Khlebnikov; Writer: Boris Khlebnikov, Natalya Meshchaninova; Stars: Galina Averyanova, Irina Gorbacheva, Polina Ilyukhina, Vladimir Kapustin, Anna Kotova, Ivan Kudashov, Maksim Lagashkin, Evgeniy Muravin, Sergey Nasedkin, Tatyana Rasskazova, Aleksandr Samoylenko, Nikolay Shrayber, Albina Tikhanova, Sergey Udovik, Anna Ukolova)
A paramedic and a junior doctor find themselves on the verge of a break-up.
April's Daughter (Country: Mexico; Year: 2017; Director: Michel Franco; Writer: Michel Franco; Stars: Emma Suárez, Hernán Mendoza, Joanna Larequi, Enrique Arrizon, Ivan Cortes)
After a teenager falls pregnant, her half-sister calls their long-absent mother, sparking trouble.
Bank Of Broken Hearts (Kirik Kalpler Bankasi) (Country: Turkey; Year: 2017; Director: Onur Ünlü; Writer: Onur Ünlü based on William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet; Stars: Haluk Bilginer, Serkan Keskin, Hazal Kaya, Taner Ölmez, Tansu Biçer, Osman Sonant, Fatih Artman, Metin Akdülger, Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan, Senay Gürler, Kadir Çermik, Öner Erkan, Mehmet Yilmaz Ak, Ahmet Kaynak, Diren Polatogullari)
Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers get a Turkish reimagining.
Behind The Column (Country: Hungary; Year: 2017; Director: Csaba Vékes; Writer: Csaba Vékes; Stars: Gergely Bánki, Zoltán Bezerédi, Mercédesz Kalocsai, Tamás Mohai, Tünde Murányi, Ervin Nagy, Ilona Nagy, Szabolcs Ruszina, Dénes Ujlaky, Gábor Ónodi)
A neglected actor who turns from being the walk-on man forever to the leading stage director of a theatre. From now on he has to fight not only for his own dreams but also for his crew.
Brigsby Bear (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Dave McCary; Writer: Kevin Costello, Kevin Costello, Kyle Mooney, Kyle Mooney; Stars: Kyle Mooney, Claire Danes, Mark Hamill, Greg Kinnear, Matt Walsh, Michaela Watkins)
Brigsby Bear Adventures is a children's TV show produced for an audience of one: James. When the show abruptly ends, James's life changes forever, and he sets out to finish the story himself.
God's Own Country God's Own Country
God's Own Country and Columbus
Brimstone (Country: Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, UK; Year: 2016; Director: Martin Koolhoven; Writer: Martin Koolhoven, Martin Koolhoven; Stars: Kit Harington, Dakota Fanning, Carice van Houten, Guy Pearce, Paul Anderson, Emilia Jones, Carla Juri, William Houston, Bill Tangradi, Naomi Battrick, Ivy George, Jack Roth, Vera Vitali, Justin Salinger, Frederick Schmidt)
Revenge tale about a mute midwife in the American West.
Call Me By Your Name (Country: Italy, France, US, Brazil; Year: 2017; Director: Luca Guadagnino; Writer: James Ivory, based on the book by André Aciman; Stars: Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel, Victoire Du Bois)
First love blooms over a long, hot summer for a teenager in Italy.
The Ciambra (A Ciambra) (Country: France; Year: 2017; Director: Jonas Carpignano; Writer: Jonas Carpignano; Stars: Pio Amato, Koudous Seihon, Damiano Amato, Francesco Pio Amato, Iolanda Amato, Patrizia Amato, Rocco Amato, Susanna Amato), Trailer
A teenager faces choices as he comes of age.
Columbus (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Kogonada; Writer: Kogonada; Stars: Haley Lu Richardson, John Cho, Rory Culkin, Parker Posey, Michelle Forbes, Jim Dougherty, William Willet, Wynn Reichert)
Two people meet by chance and forge a connection.
Children Of The Night (I figli della notte) (Country: Italy; Year: 2016; Director: Andrea De Sica; Writer: Andrea De Sica, Mariano Di Nardo, Gloria Malatesta; Stars: Vincenzo Crea, Fabrizio Rongione, Ludovico Succio, Yuliia Sobol, Luigi Bignone, Pietro Monfreda, Dario Cantarelli, Michael Bernhard Plattner)
Giulio, a seventeen-year-old from a well-to-do family, is sent to a boarding school. In this isolated place in the Alps, where iron-clad rules limit all contact with the outside, he makes friends with Edoardo, and the two begin to embark on night time adventures.
Brimstone Brimstone
Brimstone and Brigsby Bear
God's Own Country (Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Francis Lee; Writer: Francis Lee; Stars: Josh O'Connor, Alec Secareanu, Gemma Jones, Ian Hart)
Young sheep farmer Johnny numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker offers the promise of something else.
Good Time (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Ben Safdie, Joshua Safdie; Writer: Ronald Bronstein, Joshua Safdie; Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Robert Pattinson, Barkhad Abdi, Ben Safdie, Taliah Webster, Marcos A. Gonzalez, Cliff Moylan, Rose Gregorio, Shaun Rey, Souleymane Sy Savane, Buddy Duress, Phil Cappadora, Mahadeo Shivraj, Ratnesh Dubey, Jibril Goodman, Laurence Blum)
Crime caper sees a bank robber try to evade capture.
Jeannette: The Childhood Of Joan Of Arc (Jeannette L'Enfance De Jeanne D'Arc) (Country: France; Year: 2017; Director: Bruno Dumont; Writer: Bruno Dumont, based on the play by Charles Péguy; Stars: Lise Leplat Prudhomme, Jeanne Voisin, Lucile Gauthier, Victoria Lefebvre, Aline Charles, Elise Charles, Anaïs Rivière, Gery De Poorter, Régine Delalin, Nicolas Leclaire)
Musical about the French heroine.
Kupal (A preparátor) (Country: Iran; Year: 2017; Director: Kazem Mollaie; Writer: Kazem Mollaie; Stars: Levon Haftvan, Nazanin Farahani, Hossein Shamsabadi, Pouria Rahimi, Vahan Salimzadeh, Sharon, Mojtaba Alizadeh, Hossein Ghayebi Shabahang)
A trapped taxidermist faces a battle for survival.
Lady Macbeth (Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: William Oldroyd; Writer: Alice Birch, based on the novel by Nikolai Leskov; Stars: Florence Pugh, Christopher Fairbank, Cosmo Jarvis, Naomi Ackie, Paul Hilton, Golda Rosheuvel, Anton Palmer)
A woman sold into a loveless marriage develops a mind for murder after starting an affair.
Loving Vincent Loving Vincent
Loving Vincent and Lady Macbeth
Loving Vincent (Country: UK, Poland; Year: 2017; Director: Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman; Writer: Jacek Dehnel, Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman; Stars: Helen McCrory, Jerome Flynn, Saoirse Ronan, Aidan Turner, Chris O'Dowd, Eleanor Tomlinson, Douglas Booth, Holly Earl, Robert Gulaczyk, John Sessions, James Greene, Richard Banks, Bill Thomas, Josh Burdett, Martin Herdman)
The life and mysterious death of Vincent Van Gogh.
M.F.A. (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Natalia Leite; Writer: Leah McKendrick; Stars: Francesca Eastwood, Leah McKendrick, Clifton Collins Jr, Peter Vack)
A woman who is raped goes on a rampage of vengeance.
Mother! (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Darren Aronofsky; Writer: Darren Aronofsky; Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer, Domhnall Gleeson, Brian Gleeson, Stephen McHattie, Kristen Wiig, Stefan Simchowitz, Jovan Adepo, Robert Higden, Amanda Warren, Eric Davis, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Mizinga Mwinga)
Uninvited guests threaten a couple's relationship.
The Nothing Factory (A Fábrica De Nada) (Country: Portugal; Year: 2017; Director: Pedro Pinho; Writer: Tiago Hespanha, Luisa Homem, Leonor Noivo, Pedro Pinho, Jorge Silva Melo; Stars: Carla Galvão, Dinis Gomes, Américo Silva, José Smith Vargas)
One night, a group of workers realizes that the administration is stealing machines and raw materials from their own factory, forcing the staff to take a stand.
Purgatoryo (Country: Philippines; Year: 2016; Director: Roderick Cabrido; Writer: Joseph Israel Laban, Denise O'Hara; Stars: Ernani L. Antonio, Bernardo Bernardo, Chrome Prince Cosio, Elora Españo, Rolando Inocencio, Kristoffer King, Mara Lopez, Jess Mendoza, Japo Parcero, Samuel Quintana, Che Ramos, Arnold Reyes, Lovely Tan, Lou Veloso)
The story of Ilyong, a recently-dead man, killed by the police and the seedy funeral home where his body is sent.
Jeannette: The Childhood Of Joan Of Arc Jeannette: The Childhood Of Joan Of Arc
Jeannette: The Childhood Of Joan Of Arc and Western
Western (Country: Germany; Year: 2017; Director: Valeska Grisebach; Writer: Valeska Grisebach; Stars: Meinhard Neumann, Reinhardt Wetrek, Waldemar Zang, Detlef Schaich)
A group of German construction workers on a job in Bulgaria begin to compete for the approval of the locals.
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