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Istanbul Film Festival · 2018

Istanbul Film Festival 2018

Hidden Gems

Programme

5 films

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Daughter Of The Nile

The eldest daughter of a broken and troubled family works to keep the family together and look after her younger siblings, who are slipping into a life of crime.

(Country: Taiwan; Year: 1987; Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien; Writer: Chu T'ien-wen, Huang Chien-ho; Stars: Lin Yang, Jack Kao, Chen Shu-fang)

Figures In A Landscape

Two escapees are on the run while being hounded by a menacing black helicopter.

(Country: UK; Year: 1970; Director: Joseph Losey; Writer: Robert Shaw, Barry England; Stars: Robert Shaw, Malcolm McDowell, Henry Woolf, Christopher Malcolm, Andy Bradford, Warwick Sims, Roger Lloyd Pack, Robert East, Tariq Yunus, Pamela Brown, Robert Shaw, Malcolm McDowell, Henry Woolf, Christopher Malcolm, Andy Bradford)

Liquid Sky

Aliens on the hunt for heroin land on the top of a New York apartment... and soon find human pheromones are a better drug.

(Country: US; Year: 1982; Director: Slava Tsukerman; Writer: Slava Tsukerman, Anne Carlisle, Nina V. Kerova; Stars: Anne Carlisle, Paula E. Sheppard, Susan Doukas, Otto von Wernherr, Bob Brady, Elaine C. Grove, Stanley Knapp, Jack Adalist, Lloyd Ziff, Harry Lum, Roy MacArthur, Sara Carlisle, Nina V. Kerova, Alan Preston, Christine Hatfull)

Phase IV

Desert ants suddenly form a collective intelligence and begin to wage war on the desert inhabitants.

(Country: UK, US; Year: 1974; Director: Saul Bass; Writer: Mayo Simon; Stars: Nigel Davenport, Michael Murphy, Lynne Frederick, Alan Gifford, Robert Henderson, Helen Horton, David Healy)

Private Property

Two drifters follow a rich housewife to her home and try to insinuate themselves into her house.

(Country: US; Year: 1960; Director: Leslie Stevens; Writer: Leslie Stevens; Stars: Kate Manx, Corey Allen, Warren Oates, Robert Ward, Jerome Cowan, Jules Maitland)