Aswanth A, visual designer | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Aswanth A’s connection with the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) organised in Thiruvananthapuram, goes beyond a cinephile’s love for movies. It was in 2017 when he moved to the city to pursue a bachelor’s degree in fine arts at the College of Fine Arts. As […]
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A still from the documentary Thespians of Aattam. (from left, standing) Vinay Forrt, Madan Babu K, Sudheer Babu, Jolly Anthony and Sijin Sijeesh; (sitting, from left) Prasanth Madhavan, Sanosh Murali, Aji Thiruvamkulam, Nandan Unni, Anand Ekarshi and Santhosh Piravom. All of them are actors of Lokadharmi in Kochi. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Malayalam film […]
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Bela Tarr the person comes across as a starkly different being from the image conveyed by his deeply contemplative and philosophical works. Here is a straight-talking auteur who uses his words as quick stabs or unkind cuts, the kind of which are so few in his films. Yet, one can easily connect the philosophy of […]
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Divya Prabha and Kunchacko Boban in Ariyippu. Something about the appearance and the mood of industrial towns generate a sense of disorientation. In Mahesh Narayanan’s Ariyippu (Declaration), screened in the International Competition category at the 27th IFFK, the feeling is accentuated by the constantly running assembly line of a latex glove manufacturing factory in the […]
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A thattukada near Vellayambalam in Thiruvananthapuram | Photo Credit: Aswin V N Thiruvananthapuram’s happening street food scene is bound to get your taste buds tingling, even as you enjoy a steady diet of world cinema at this year’s edition of the International Film Festival of Kerala. After a busy day at the movies, delegates don’t […]
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A thattukada near Vellayambalam in Thiruvananthapuram | Photo Credit: Aswin V N Thiruvananthapuram’s happening street food scene is bound to get your taste buds tingling, even as you enjoy a steady diet of world cinema at this year’s edition of the International Film Festival of Kerala. After a busy day at the movies, delegates don’t […]
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Sajitha Madathil and Namitha Pramod in a still from the movie Aanu | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Actor-director Sidhartha Siva’s Aanu (Yes) is set to be screened at the 27th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) under the Malayalam Cinema Today category. It marks the debut of actor-writer Sajitha Madathil as a scenarist. A divorcee, […]
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The 27th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK), set to begin on December 9 in the capital, will showcase 21 Malayalam films, spread across different packages. Among the films to be screened are the latest works of filmmakers Lijo Jose Pellissery and Mahesh Narayanan — Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakam and Ariyippu — respectively. Both films have […]
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Emir Kusturica’s life-affirming films filled with manic energy are in a way representative of the filmmaker himself, whose creative energies spill out of the medium that he works primarily in, and flows into other art forms. It becomes musical pieces, operas and even pieces of architecture. For his film Life is a Miracle, he built […]
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The State Chalachitra Academy has announced the list of films for the International Competition section of the 27th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK), to be held in December this year. The chosen films are Iranian film Hoopoe directed by Mehdi Ghazanfari, Turkish film Kerr directed by Tayfun Pirselimoglu, Israeli film Concerned Citizen directed by […]
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