20th Chennai International Film Festival - CIFF 2022 - Film List

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Films screened in the 20th Chennai International Film Festival - CIFF 2022.

Movies missed in the below List:
1. ID - Kiran Kondamadugula / USA / 116 minutes / 2022
2. Yuddha Kandam - Anantharajan / India / 90 minutes / Tamil / 2022
3. Beginning - Jagan Vijaya / India / 109 minutes / Tamil / 2022
4. Maalai Nera Malipoo - Sanjay Narayanan / India / 128 minutes / Tamil / 2022
5. Taya - G Prabha Gopalapillai / India / 112 minutes / Sanskrit / 2021
6. Soul of Silence - Dhanjit Das / India / 82 minutes / Assamese / 2021

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1. The Hotel
20221h 52m
5.9 (73)
The first days of 2020's lockdown seem to drag forever for a group of tourists trapped in a Thai hotel. In strict confinement and as the big day of an unexpected event approaches, emotional entanglements, tensions and long kept secrets rise to the surface.
DirectorXiaoshuai WangStarsJun DaiXiaolei HuangZonghan Li
1. 15-12-2022 / 10.15 AM / Santham
2. 21-12-2022 / 12.45 PM / Anna Cinemas
2. Ribena Kost
20211h 46m
5.9 (150)
9 situations where people are pushed to react, but they are confused, scared or too busy. 9 viewpoint towards an absurd world, in which people are like a dead dolphin - and nobody knows how to take care of it.
DirectorDragomir SholevStarsMartina TroanskaDonka AvramovaGeorgi Naldzhiev
1. 15-12-2022 / 12.30 PM / Santham
2. 18-12-2022 / 07.15 PM / 6 Degrees
3. No Prior Appointment
20221h 55m
5.3 (356)
The plot of the film without prior appointment is that Yasmin was the age of her six-year-old son who immigrated to Germany (Munich) and now, with the death of her father, she is forced to return to Iran after thirty years;
DirectorBehrouz ShoaybiStarsPegah AhangaraniMostafa ZamaniSaber Abar
1. 1512-2022 / 03.00 PM / Santham
4. Triangle of Sadness
20222h 27mR
7.3 (191K)
63Metascore
A fashion model celebrity couple join an eventful cruise for the super-rich.
DirectorRuben ÖstlundStarsThobias ThorwidHarris DickinsonCharlbi Dean
1. 15-12-2022 / 06.00 PM / Santham
2. 20-12-2022 / 06.00 PM / Santham
5. A játszma
20221h 42m
7.1 (1.3K)
During the Cold War, the secret service of Kádár began a more dangerous state security game than ever before.
DirectorPéter FazakasStarsJános KulkaZsolt NagyViktória Staub
1. 16-12-2022 / 10.15 AM / Santham
2. 20-12-2022 / 10.00 AM / Seasons
6. Brother and Sister
20221h 48m
5.5 (1.4K)
60Metascore
Alice and Louis are estranged siblings who have been avoiding each other for over twenty years and are forced to reunite after a tragedy.
DirectorArnaud DesplechinStarsMarion CotillardMelvil PoupaudGolshifteh Farahani
1. 16-12-2022 / 12.30 PM / Santham
2. 18-12-2022 / 03.00 PM / Anna Cinemas
7. A E I O U: A Quick Alphabet of Love
20221h 45m
5.6 (459)
Love story of a speaking skills teacher and her student.
DirectorNicolette KrebitzStarsSophie RoisUdo KierMilan Herms
1. 16-12-2022 / 03.00 PM / Santham
8. Final Cut
20221h 52m
6.4 (4.9K)
51Metascore
Things go badly for a small film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie when they are attacked by real zombies.
DirectorMichel HazanaviciusStarsRomain DurisBérénice BejoGrégory Gadebois
1. 16-12-2022 / 06.00 PM / Santham
2. 18-12-2022 / 12.30 PM / Anna Cinemas
9. Cuentos de un día más
20211h 30m
DirectorFernando Pérez
1. 17-12-2022 / 10.15 AM / Santham
10. Loving Memories
20221h 27m
5.7 (264)
A wife recognizes her husband's photo as an amnesic drifter who went missing in action during the Great War in 1916. They reunited she helps him to fall in love with her again. Until another woman claims to be the man's real wife.
DirectorGuillaume BureauStarsLeïla BekhtiKarim LeklouLouise Bourgoin
1. 17-12-2022 / 12.35 PM / Santham
2. 19-12-2022 / 03.00 PM / Anna Cinemas
11. Before, Now & Then
20221h 43m
6.6 (698)
70Metascore
Nana, a gentle, beautiful young woman, escapes a violent anti-communist purge. Afterwards she lives comfortably as the second wife of a rich Sundanese man but her past re-emerges in her dreams.
DirectorKamila AndiniStarsHappy SalmaLaura BasukiArswendy Bening Swara
1. 17-12-2022 / 03.00 PM / Santham
2. 18-12-2022 / 10.00 AM / Anna Cinemas
12. The Fam
20211h 52m
7.0 (304)
70Metascore
A group of teenage girls have been placed in a residential care home with social workers. This forced "family" experience creates unexpected tensions and intimacies. An incident triggers a chain of over-reactions.
DirectorFred BaillifStarsClaudia GrobAnais UldryKassia Da Costa
1. 17-12-2022 / 06.00 PM / Santham
13. Safe Place
20221h 43m
7.2 (1.7K)
Follows Damir, who's trying to take his own life while his family wants to save him. Everything happens over a period of just 24 hours.
DirectorJuraj LeroticStarsJuraj LeroticSnjezana SinovcicGoran Markovic
1. 18-12-2022 / 10.15 AM / Santham
14. Parsley
20221h 25m
6.6 (144)
A pregnant woman, left alone in the wilderness near the Dominican border, tries to escape the massacre of Haitians in 1937.
DirectorJosé María CabralStarsCyndie LundyRamón Emilio CandelarioVladimir Acevedo
1. 18-12-2022 / 12.30 PM / Santham
2. 19-2-2022 / 06.00 PM / Anna Cinemas
15. Neon Spring
20221h 42m
5.7 (354)
As her family is falling apart, twenty-year-old Laine gets introduced to Riga's underground raves where she experiences love and slowly begins to lose connection with reality.
DirectorMatiss KazaStarsMarija Luize MelkeGreta TrusinaGerds Laposka
1. 18-12-2022 / 03.00 PM / Santham
2. 21-12-2022 / 06.00 PM / Anna Cinemas
16. The Taste of Apples Is Red
20221h 23m
6.0 (113)
It tells the story of Sheikh, whose brother disappeared during the Arab-Israeli war. Fifty years after the territory became part of Israel, the past catches up with the present when tension at the border rises again.
DirectorEhab TarabiehStarsRuba BlalSuhel HaddadShaden Kanboura
1. 16-12-2022 / 09.15 AM / 6 Degrees
2. 18-12-2022 / 06.00 PM / Santham
17. Lucky Chan-sil
20191h 36m
6.6 (663)
Chan-sil, a film producer, finds herself unemployed with the sudden death of her long-time collaborated director. Out of prospects and out of luck, she moves into a bargain room in a shoddy neighborhood. But something doesn't seem quite right with her new elderly landlady.
DirectorCho-hee KimStarsKang Mal-GeumYoun Yuh-jungKim Young-min
1. 19-12-2022 / 10.5 AM / Santham
18. Mi iubita, mon amour
20211h 35m
5.9 (316)
52Metascore
Jeanne is going to celebrate her bachelorette party in Romania, where she meets Nino, which begins a passionate and timeless summer.
DirectorNoémie MerlantStarsGimi CovaciNoémie MerlantSanda Codreanu
1. 16-12-2022 / 06.00 PM / Anna Cinemas
2. 19-12-2022 / 12.30 PM / Santham
19. Broker
20222h 9mR
7.1 (18K)
77Metascore
When a young mother reconsiders abandoning her baby, she discovers a scheme selling foundlings for adoption.
DirectorHirokazu KoreedaStarsSong Kang-hoGang Dong-wonBae Doona
1. 17-12-2022 / 12.45 PM / Anna Cinemas
2. 19-12-2022 / 03.00 PM / Santham
20. Leila's Brothers
20222h 45m
7.9 (15K)
87Metascore
Leila, who has spent her entire life caring for her family, makes a plan as her brothers are struggling to make ends meet.
DirectorSaeed RoustayiStarsSaeed PoursamimiTaraneh AlidoostiNavid Mohammadzadeh
1. 19-12-2022 / 06.00 PM / Santham
2. 20-12-2022 / 06.15 PM / Serene
21. Mi novia es la revolución
20211h 43m
7.7 (26)
DirectorMarcelino Islas HernándezStarsAna Valeria BecerrilEdwarda GurrolaSofia Islas
1. 20-12-2022 / 10.15 AM / Santham
22. The Divide
20211h 39m
6.6 (1.6K)
61Metascore
Two women on the verge of a breakup, in a hospital, are further stressed on the night of a big demonstration by the overwhelmed staff and by angry, injured protestors who land up besieging the building.
DirectorCatherine CorsiniStarsValeria Bruni TedeschiMarina FoïsPio Marmaï
1. 20-12-2022 / 12.30 PM / Santham
23. Tchaikovsky's Wife
20222h 23m
6.5 (1.9K)
50Metascore
Tumultuous relationship between Pyotr Tchaikovsky, the most famous Russian composer of all time, and his wife Antonina Miliukova.
DirectorKirill SerebrennikovStarsAlyona MikhaylovaOdin Lund BironFilipp Avdeev
1. 20-12-2022 / 03.00 PM / Santham
24. Continental Drift (South)
20221h 29m
5.4 (170)
Nathalie Adler is on a mission for the EU in Sicily. She organizes the next visit of Macron and Merkel to a migrant camp. Their presence has a high symbolic value to show that everything is under control. But who still wants to believe in this European family on the verge of a nervous breakdown? Probably not Albert, Nathalie's son, an NGO activist who arrives without warning even though he has been estranged from her for years. Their reunion will be more explosive than this diplomatic trip.
DirectorLionel BaierStarsIsabelle CarréThéodore PellerinUrsina Lardi
1. 18-12-2022 / 12.30 PM / Seasons
2. 21-12-2022 / 10.15 AM / Santham
25. Burning Days
20222h 9m
7.5 (13K)
Emre, a young prosecutor newly appointed to the small town of Yaniklar, finds himself being pulled into a political conflict during his first criminal investigation.
DirectorEmin AlperStarsSelahattin PasaliEkin KoçErol Babaoglu
1. 19-12-2022 / 10.00 AM / Anna Cinemas
2. 21-12-2022 / 12.30 PM / Santham