With
the message of hope, ‘Vellapokkathil’ will be screened at the 23rd
International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK).
The
film from Malayalam Cinema's veteran director Jayaraj is based on Thakazhi
Sivasankara Pillai’s short story of the same title. The film was the recipient
of the 2007 National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film
Direction.
It
will be screened under the ‘The Human Spirit: Films on Hope and Rebuilding’
package. Set in the backdrop of the 1924 floods, the film revolves around a pet
dog - Appu - who gets isolated in the deluge.
As
a mark of respect to Nelson Mandela, Justin Chadwick’s ‘Mandela: Long Walk to
Freedom’ will be screened under the package as part of the revolutionary
leader’s birth centenary. Mel Gibson’s ‘Apocalypto’, Benh Zeitlin’s ‘Beasts of
the Southern Wild’, Fisher Stevens’s ‘Before the Flood’, and Wim Wenders’s
‘Pope Francis: A Man of His Word’, are the other films included in the
package.
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