Movie nights for KKIFF 2011 are from 03 June 2011 to 09 June 2011. Please feel free to take a look at our KKIFF 2011: Movie Nights photo showcase, and also details of selected movies as follow,
1st Night
Friday, 3 June 2011, 7:30pm, Hall 4, GSC Suria Sabah, Kota Kinabalu – La fille de Monaco (The Girl From Monaco) – French with English subtitles
Bertrand Beauvois, a well-known attorney, is in Monte Carlo to defend a businessman’s mother who murdered a gigolo with ties to gangsters. The businessman provides a bodyguard, Christophe, who is thorough and unsmiling. The middle-aged Beauvois is drawn to Audrey, in her 20s, free spirited, a local TV weather girl who once dated Christophe. Although Christophe warns Beauvois to stay away from Audrey, he’s hooked and spends every moment with her when he’s not in court. What’s her motive? Is she a plan who’ll ruin the case; is Beauvois her toy; is she digging for gold; or, is she genuine? Beauvois loves the wild sex but not her promiscuity. Has Christophe failed to protect him?
2nd Night
Saturday, 4 June 2011, 7:30pm, Theatrette Ahmad Nisfu, UMS, Kota Kinabalu – The Big Durian
On the night of 18 October 1987, a soldier ran amok with an M16 in the area of Chow Kit, Kuala Lumpur. Due to the thorny circumstances of the time and place, his amok triggered a citywide panic and rumours of racial riots. A few days later, the government of Dr. Mahathir Mohamad began a nationwide crackdown by detaining over 100 opposition leaders and members of civil society organisations, in what became known as Operation Lalang. The Big Durian speaks to 23 Malaysians (some real, some fictional) to find out about what happened, or what did not happen.
3rd Night
Sunday, 5 June 2011, 7:30pm, Hall 4, GSC Suria Sabah, Kota Kinabalu – Roman de Gare (Crossed Tracks) – French with English subtitles
As the movie opens, a woman writer with a recently bestselling novel is being questioned about a murder. The story cuts to a young woman abandoned by her traveling companion at a roadside rest stop. A helpful man offers to give her a ride. The story turns on a series of mysterious identities. There is an escaped rapist-killer with a penchant for magic tricks. There is a man who has abandoned his family. And there is a writer’s assistant. Which of these three is the helpful stranger? He is especially suspicious as he begins secretly dictating into a recorder a story about a woman in danger. The man and woman travel from the rest stop to her parents’ home, where her daughter is also living. (The woman herself lives in Paris and has an undefined occupation.) The man bonds with the daughter and disappears with her for several hours…
4th Night
Monday, 6 June 2011, 7:30pm, Hall 4, GSC Suria Sabah, Kota Kinabalu – Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others) – German with English subtitles
East Berlin, November 1984. Five years before its downfall, the former East-German government ensured its claim to power with a ruthless system of control and surveillance. Party-loyalist Captain Gerd Wiesler hopes to boost his career when given the job of collecting evidence against the playwright Georg Dreyman and his girlfriend, the celebrated theater actress Christa-Maria Sieland. After all, the “operation” is backed by the highest political circles. What he didn’t anticipate, however, was that submerging oneself into the world of the target also changes the surveillance agent. The immersion in the lives of others–in love, literature, free thinking and speech–makes Wiesler acutely aware of the meagerness of his own existence and opens to him a completely new way of life which he has ever more trouble resisting. But the system, once started, cannot be stopped. A dangerous game has begun.
5th Night
Tuesday, 7 June 2011, 7:30pm, Hall 4, GSC Suria Sabah, Kota Kinabalu – 百万円と苦虫女 (One Million Yen Girl) – Japanese with English subtitles
A 21-year-old junior college graduate named Suzukois involved in an incident which leads to her getting arrested and leaves her with a criminal record. After paying a fine, she ends up stuck back home with her parents and younger brother. She decides that she wants to get away from her family and their gossiping neighbors, so she begins traveling from town to town, working menial jobs until she saves up one million yen (enough to get situated in the next place, she figures). She does her best to move on before anyone really gets to know her, but when she falls for a coworker, her life once again gets complicated.
6th Night
Wednesday, 8 June 2011, 7:30pm, Theatrette Ahmad Nisfu, UMS, Kota Kinabalu- 秒速5センチメートル (5 Centimeters per Second) – Japanese anime with English subtitles
A tale of two people, Tono Takaki and Shinohara Akari, who were close friends but gradually grow farther and farther apart as time moves on. They become separated because of their families yet continue to exchange contact in the form of letters. Yet as time continues to trudge on, their contact with one another begins to cease. Years pass and the rift between them grows ever larger. However, Takaki remembers the times they have shared together, but as life continues to unfold for him, he wonders if he would be given the chance to meet Akari again as the tale embarks on Takaki’s realization of the world and people around him.
7th Night
Thursday, 9 June 2011, 7:30pm, Hall 4, GSC Suria Sabah, Kota Kinabalu – おくりびと (Departures) – Japanese with English subtitles
Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki) is a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and now finds himself without a job. Daigo decides to move back to his old hometown with his wife to look for work and start over. He answers a classified ad entitled “Departures” thinking it is an advertisement for a travel agency only to discover that the job is actually for a “Nokanshi” or “encoffineer,” a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry into the next life. While his wife and others despise the job, Daigo takes a certain pride in his work and begins to perfect the art of “Nokanshi,” acting as a gentle gatekeeper between life and death, between the departed and the family of the departed. The film follows his profound and sometimes comical journey with death as he uncovers the wonder, joy and meaning of life and living.
