AMORES PERROS
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Running Time: 154min
Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Actors: Emilio Echevarria, Gael Garcia Bernal, Goya Toledo
Oct 7(Friday)/ 10.45 p.m. / PVR Cinemas, Acropolis Mall
Three interconnected stories about the different strata of life in Mexico City resolve with a fatal car accident. Octavio, trying to raise enough money to run away with his sister-in-law, decides to enter his dog, Cofi into the world of dogfighting. After a dogfight goes bad, Octavio flees in his car, runs a red light and causes the accident. Daniel and Valeria's new-found bliss is prematurely ended when she loses her leg in the accident. El Chivo is a homeless man who cares for stray dogs and is there to witness the collision. Alejandro unfolds these stories and in turn leaves his audience in a state of trance.
BABEL
Language: ENGLISH, ARABIC, SPANISH, JAPANESE, BERBER
LANGUAGES, FRESNCH, RUSSIAN
Running Time: 143min
Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Actors: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael Garcia Bernal
Oct 8(Friday)/ 10.45 p.m. / PVR Cinemas, Acropolis Mall
Four interlocking stories connected by a single gun converge at the end and reveal a complex and tragic story of the lives of humanity around the world and how we truly aren't all that different. In Morocco, a troubled married couple is on vacation trying to work out their differences. Meanwhile, a Moroccan herder buys a rifle for his sons so they can keep the jackals away from his herd. A girl in Japan dealing with rejection, the death of her mother, the emotional distance of her father, her own self-consciousness, and a disability among many other issues, deals with modern life in the enormous metropolis of Tokyo, Japan. Then, on the opposite side of the world the married couple's Mexican nanny takes the couple's two children with her to her son's wedding in Mexico only to land up in trouble on the return trip. Combined, it provides a powerful story and an equally powerful looking glass into the lives of seemingly random people around the world and it shows just how connected we really are.
21 GRAMS
Language: ENGLISH
Running Time: 124min
Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Actors:Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Naomi Watts.
Oct 9(Friday)/ 6.30 p.m. / PVR Cinemas, Acropolis Mall
This is the story of three gentle people: Paul Rivers an ailing mathematician lovelorn and married to an English émigré. Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls. Jack Jordan, an ex-convict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to raise a family. They are brought together by a terrible accident that changes their lives. By the final frame, none of them are the same as they learn harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever.