- Woodlands
- Woodlands Symphony
- Casino
- Russian Cultural Center Auditorium
- Inox-3
- Inox-2
- RKV Film & Television Institute Auditorium
In spite of the disappointment of Dheepan not making it to the list, the German film Victoria certainly left everyone at a loss for words at the sheer audacity and the magnitude of what had been attempted! Every single day had at least one if not two or three films as highlights which people were discussing in every theatre lobby/Tea shop near each of the venues.
The major grouse that cinema-loving audience have with CIFF is the lack of master class or discussion sessions. The first step towards addressing this was made by the introduction of an Interactive Corner by Cinema Rendezvous where prominent personalities like Vetri Maaran, Samuthirakani, Actor Rajesh, Editor Praveen KL, Director Ashwin Saravanan and many more took part in discussions on various topics concerned with today’s cinema. Here is a video where we have Vetri Maaran and Ashwin in conversation at the Interactive Corner. We hope that this grows multifold in the upcoming years.
There was significantly better coordination & lesser amount of technical issues this time around at CIFF and it is the tireless work of many behind the scenes and of course the volunteers which must be appreciated.
While it is almost impossible to cover every film at CIFF, we as a team have been able to cover quite a lot and in spite of the delay we have finally managed to transcribe most of our notes into reviews. Out of the ones we saw here are our picks of CIFF 2016!
Hrútar (or) Rams (Icelandic, 2015) - 7th Jan
Taxi Tehran or Taxi (Persian, 2015) - 8th Jan
Miekkailija (or) The Fencer (Estonian, 2015) - 9th Jan
Radiopetti (or) Radio Set (Tamil, 2015) - 10th Jan
Lens (English, 2015) - 11th Jan
Aviyal (Tamil, 2016) - 10th Jan
Montevideo, vidimo se! (or) See You in Montevideo (Serbian, 2014) - 6th Jan
Victoria (German, 2015) - 7th Jan
Mia Madre (or) My Mother (Italian, 2015) - 9th Jan
Jalaler Golpo (or) Jalal’s Story (Bengali, 2015) - 10th Jan
Embrace of the Serpent (or) El abrazo de la serpiente (Spanish, 2015) - 11th Jan
Shānhé gùrén (or) Mountains May Depart (Chinese, 2015) - 9th Jan
Aferim! (Romanian, 2015) - 7th Jan
Ottaal (or) The Trap (Malayalam, 2014) - 10th Jan
Virgin Mountain (or) Fúsi (Icelandic, 2015) - 10th Jan
Cinemawala (Bengali, 2015) - 10th Jan
Story of My Father´s Bike & Me (Persian, 2014) - 12th Jan
Morqaye (or) Moor (Urdu, 2015) - 9th Jan
This 13th edition of the Chennai International Film Festival was undoubtedly a massive crowd puller as it screened 184 movies from from 57 countries in the 8 days starting from 6th Jan 2016 to 13th Jan 2016. This sets up giant expectations on the next edition which promises to be bigger and better, just like how it has evolved every year – now that’s the yearly phenomenon we all look forward to witness!
Also have a look at our last year’s coverage of 12th CIFF here.
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