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Premieres at the IFFK




It is premieres galore at the 23rd International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK)!

Best picks from Venice and Berlin festivals alongside debut Asian Premieres will be part of the season.
Highlights include International films including Oscar nominated ‘Pilgrimage’.

Five films in the ‘International Competition’ and three films in the ‘World Cinema’ category will have their first Asian screening at the IFFK this year.

’Poisonous Roses’, ‘Debt’, ‘The Graveless’, ‘Tale of the Sea’ and ‘The Bed’ will be screened under ‘International Competition’ category and ‘Paris Square’ by Lucia Murat, ‘ Horizon’ by Tinatin Kajrishvili and ‘Pilgrimage’ by Joao Botelho are set to be screened under  the World Cinema category.   

‘Poisonous Roses’ by Ahmed Fawzi Saleh, which was part of the 2018 Cairo International Film Festival, tells the story of siblings Saqr and Taheya who live in a grubby Egyptian Tanner’s district.

Spanish movie ‘The Bed’ by Monica Lairana is about couple Jorge and Mabel who decided to part ways and are spending their last day as a couple in their family home.  The film portrays the complexities of life and relationships when the two eat, cry, have sex and laugh and finally abandon their house and bond. ‘The Bed’ was screened as part of Berlin International Film Festival and New Horizons International Film Festival.
Two of the Premier films, ‘The Graveless’ by Iranian director Mostafa Sayyari and ‘Debt’ by Turkish director  Vuslat Saracoglu are debut ventures by the directors.  



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