Thursday, October 15
No showings on this day.
Amitabha Roy is a Calcutta-based scriptwriter, driving around in the country to collect material for a film. His vehicle breaks down in a small town. A tea planter, Bimal Gupta, offers hospitality for the night. Amitabha is forced to accept the offer as he has no alternative.
The film follows the adventurous story of a hen desperately seeking to start a family, all while a harrowing human tragedy unfolds in the background. "With great power comes great responsibility"—but what happens when the hero is merely a hen? After escaping a poultry farm, she finds refuge in the yard of a dilapidated restaurant. There, she discovers love, confronts the pecking order of the coop, and fights to protect her eggs from a greedy owner. Her wry yet moving quest for motherhood mirrors the difficult compromises and silent struggles of human life.
In post-war France, Jan Bojarski, a young Polish refugee, became the greatest counterfeiter of all time, the "Cézanne of counterfeit money". For more than fifteen years, this man led a double life, unbeknownst to his family, making counterfeits in a garden shed that were "truer" than the bills issued by the Banque de France... All these years, this peerless counterfeiter managed to avoid being caught by the police, and became the bête noire of Commissaire Mattei in a hunt that, for these two obsessives, turned into a duel.
During a star-studded charity gala brimming with celebrities, billionaires and empty speeches, a movie star in the midst of an existential crisis is taken hostage by a radical warrior and her devoted followers. As the night descends into chaos, both an inward journey and an outward adventure ensue, where the line between performance and belief, salvation and sacrifice, begins to blur.