A scene from Annemarie Jacir’s historical drama Palestine 36. Palestine 36, Once Upon a Time in Gaza, All That’s Left of You and Wajib and Sergei Eisenstein’s Soviet-era classic Battleship Potemkin were among the films which were denied screening at the International Film Festival of Kerala. Photo: Special Administration Film festivals have generally been viewed […]
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Minister for Cultural Affairs Saji Cherian presents IFFK Best Film (audience poll) Award to director Unnikrishnan Avala and his team for the film ‘Thanthapperu — Life of a Phallus’ during the closing ceremony of the festival at Nishagandhi Auditorium in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, Kerala State Chalachitra Academy chairman Resul Pookutty and Minister […]
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Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain | Photo Credit: S.R. Praveen Pablo Larrain flips through the photographs that he clicked on his phone, of the local body election campaign posters in the streets of Thiruvananthapuram. He enquires about the results of the elections and promptly shares his own worries about the projected results of the national elections […]
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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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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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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 […]
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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 […]
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Kapil Sharma and Shahana Goswami in a scene from Zwigato. Being your own boss and working flexible timings is perhaps the biggest selling point of the app-based gig economy. It also remains its biggest myth, because those who have worked in the sector would perhaps tell you how they are always at the mercy of […]
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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 […]
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Jonny Best | Photo Credit: S.R.Praveen Jonny Best sits at a corner of the screen, unobtrusively, almost like a member of the audience. Only that, he has a key role to play in guiding the audience’s experience of this silent film, as the accompanying pianist. Leaning over the piano, with his eyes firmly set on […]
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