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IFFK Commences: Inauguration Today (07.12.2018)




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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