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IFFK 2022: Bolivian film Utama wins Suvarna Chakoram; Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam receives Rajatha Chakoram via audience poll

December 16, 2022December 16, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

Utama’s director Alejandro Loayza Grisi’s brother and film producer Santiago Loayza Grisi with the Golden Crow Pheasant for the Best Film at the 27th International Film Festival of Kerala in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday. | Photo Credit: S. MAHINSHA Utama, Alejandro Loayza Grisi’s artistic statement of the global climate crisis, won the Golden Crow Pheasant (Suvarna […]

IFFK 2022: In his films, relationships rule

December 15, 2022December 15, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

Atanu Ghosh recalls asking Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr about filming in an age of disruptions. How do we make sense of the changing images, the filmmaker asked his senior. The veteran replied: It is on you. You have to focus on what fits. Such a focus brings positivity in the changing frames of life that […]

IFFK 2022: Prison 77 and Lord of the Ants chronicle pushbacks against unjust laws

December 14, 2022December 14, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

Unjust laws and practices imposed by repressive fascist regimes sometimes survive beyond their time, until pushback from the victims and the larger society bring in incremental changes. Two films from two different countries being screened in the World Cinema section at the 27th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) are built around this scenario. While […]

IFFK 2022: Photo exhibition on yesteryear actor Sathyan bears a picture connected to the history of The Hindu in Thiruvananthapuram city

December 14, 2022December 14, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

A photograph shows Sathyan’s mortal remains being carried out of an aircraft by actor Sankaradi, filmmaker Ramu Kariat, film producer M.O. Joseph and others in 1971.. An exhibition of photographs from the cinematic career of yesteryear Malayalam actor Sathyan at Tagore Theatre as part of the ongoing 27th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) here […]

IFFK 2022 | Nandita Das interview: “Artists must find ways to tell their story, not succumb to self-censorship”

December 13, 2022December 13, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

Nandita Das | Photo Credit: S.R. Praveen Nandita Das calls herself a “hesitant” actor and filmmaker. Her filmography certainly attests to that claim. In a career spanning 26 years, she has made only three films and acted in 40. There were years in which she did not act in a single film, and others in […]

IFFK 2022: ‘Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam’ movie review: Lijo Jose Pellissery eschews chaos to pull off his best work yet

December 12, 2022December 12, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

Mammootty in a still from Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam. Chaos is what one associates with filmmaker Lijo Jose Pellisserry, whether talking about the visual style or sound design or the narrative. In Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam, screened in the International Competition category at the ongoing 27th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) in Thiruvananthapuram, chaos is the […]

IFFK 2022: No Bears movie review: Jafar Panahi continues to create subversive art amid adversity

December 11, 2022December 11, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

A filmmaker appearing as himself for the entirety of a film might be forgiven the first time. The second time around, he is sure to attract some amount of ridicule for his vanity. But then, Jafar Panahi is not just any other filmmaker. For much of the past decade, he has worked from within the […]

IFFK 2022: Academy Chairman laments the absence of mainstream Malayalam industry at IFFK

December 10, 2022December 10, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

Mainstream film personalities have often been conspicuous by their absence at the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK). Yet, with changes that have dawned in Malayalam cinema over the past decade, blurring the lines between the independent and mainstream, some of the new age filmmakers, actors and technicians have been putting in the occasional appearance, […]

IFFK 2022: Movies for third day

December 10, 2022December 10, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

Sixty-four movies, including four movies that are part of the International Competition category, will be screened on the third day of the 27th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) on Sunday. The international competition movies to be screened are Alejandro Loayza Grisi’s Utama, Tunisian movie Alam directed by Firas Khoury, Convenience Store directed by Michael […]

Indian films chosen for IFFK sections

October 23, 2022October 24, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

A Place of Our Own, directed by Ektara Collective, and Manipuri film Our Home, directed by Romi Meitei Mayanglambam, have been chosen as the Indian films in the International Competition section for the 27th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK), to be held in December this year. A committee headed by cinematographer Azhagappan also chose […]

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