Inhale-Exhale directed by Dito Tsintsadze will be shown at 19th Pune International Film Festival
A 37-year-old Irina, a doctor by profession, returns home after serving a long sentence in prison. At home her family, who isn’t really waiting for her, consists of an unemployed husband, a rebel teenage daughter and a younger son, whom she left at the age of one.
To start a new life and return to society, Irina has to earn the trust of people close to her and get at least some kind of work. She needs money to raise the children and solve her health problems. But despite the immediate difficulties, Irina refuses to go through a special course for psychological help, she also does not agree with a friend, who suggested that she turns for help to the priest.
Irina decides to join the state program for the rehabilitation of former prisoners, where she is promised to find a new job and is told that the cost of treatment will be covered, but instead is only offered to learn English and help with the writing of her resume.
Irina is trying to establish relationships in the family: she is looking for a way to talk with her teenage daughter, is actively involved in preparing the party of her youngest son, tries to convince her husband that she needs to work to start a new, full life.
She wanders around the city, to places she hasn’t been for five years, trying to understand how all these years other people lived. She closely studies every house, monument, billboard, inscription on the wall and every ad, inviting to learn the basics of yoga or offering to sell hair. Irina carries a bag over her shoulder everywhere, which she never opens...
19th Pune International Film Festival
Pune International Film Festival (PIFF) was started with the idea of building and promoting a healthy film culture in Pune. Our objective is to give film lovers in the city access to global cinema and spark a cultural exchange. With discussions, lectures and master classes on varied topics related to the craft, we try to instil an academic flavour in the festival.
Every edition of PIFF has a unique contemporary theme. Through categories like World Competition, Marathi Competition, Global Cinema, Country Focus and Retrospective, we bring forth quality films from various countries and cultures. An acclaimed international jury decides awards for films in the competitive sections.
The Government of Maharashtra recognised PIFF as its official festival in 2010. PIFF is the only festival that gives international recognition to Marathi cinema. Every year, PIFF continues to grow with the participation of more and more accomplished film personalities, emerging filmmakers and film enthusiasts.