[ad_1] 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 […]
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[ad_1] 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 […]
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[ad_1] 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 […]
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[ad_1] Romi Meitei Mayanglambam Quite a few of the films from the northeastern States of India speak about the perils of lack of access and of remoteness. Manipuri filmmaker Romi Meitei Mayanglambam sounds a note of caution on the reducing distances and the processes set in motion by globalisation in his film Eikhoigi Yum (Our […]
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[ad_1] A single lie, arising out of a teenager’s embarrassment about the truth of the injuries he had sustained, can have unforeseen ramifications. In the hands of xenophobic groups, the lie can be woven into a wider narrative to be part of their constant hate propaganda against an outsider group or another. Slovakian director Michal […]
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[ad_1] Preparations under way for the 27th International Film Festival of Kerala which kicks off in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday. | Photo Credit: PTI In the beginning, there was light. Until the Jazz Singer arrived in 1927 as the first motion picture with synchronised sound, the early film buffs had to make do with the interplay […]
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[ad_1] 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 […]
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[ad_1] 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 […]
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[ad_1] The festival, organised by Kerala State Chalachitra Academy, will be held in Thiruvananthapuram from December 9 to 16 The festival, organised by Kerala State Chalachitra Academy, will be held in Thiruvananthapuram from December 9 to 16 The delegate registration for the 27th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) opened on Friday, with over 5,000 […]
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[ad_1] 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 […]
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