The 23rd edition of the International Film Festival
of Kerala will commence today in the capital city. Chief Minister Pinarayi
Vijayan will inaugurate the fete in the ceremony at the Nishagandhi which will
be presided over by Minister A K Balan. Bengali filmmaker Buddhadeb Dasgupta will be the
chief guest, and actress
and filmmaker Nandita Das the guest of honor. Acclaimed Iranian filmmaker and
jury chairman Majid Majidi will receive the Lifetime Achievement award at the
event from the Chief Minister.
Minister
Kadakampally Surendran will launch the Festival Handbook by handing it over to
V K Prasanth, Mayor. K Muraleedharan MLA will inaugurate the Festival Bulletin.
Following the ceremony, the opening film, ‘Everybody
Knows’ directed by Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, will be screened.
The fest will screen over 160 films from around the world. Over
90 films have been included in the World Cinema package. With the message of
optimism to the state in its post-flood recovery, a package of six films has
been included, named ‘The Human Spirit: Films on Hope and Rebuilding’.
‘Tumbbad’ will be the Midnight Screening.
14 films, including ‘Ee.Ma.Yau’ and ‘Sudani From Nigeria’, will
participate in the International Competition. As the year is the birth
centenary of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, seven of his films, and the documentary
‘Searching For Ingmar Bergman’, will be screened. In the ‘Remembering The
Master’ package, six films by Czech filmmaker Milas Forman will be featured.
Six films by Lenin Rajendran have been included in the ‘Lenin Rajendran:
Chronicler of Our Times’ package.
The fest will conclude on December 13.
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