18th International Film Festival Of Kerala ( IFFK 2013 )

 International Movie Festival of Kerala 2013

International Film Festival of Kerala – eighteenth edition was inaugurated by Chief cathedral MR.Oommen Chandy within the presence of celebrated player Shabana Azmi.

The pageant was started principally with the aim of raising film acquisition among individuals and conjointly to change serious show audiences watch screening of classic films from round the country yet because the world. annually command throughout the months of November/December, the pageant conjointly hosts premiers of Indian and foreign films.

There ar totally different classes of films shown throughout the pageant together with Competition Films, Malayalam Movies currently, Curated Sections, Country Focus, Indian Cinema currently, high Angle Indian Cinema, World Cinema, up to date Masters focused , Special Screenings etc.

The pageant this year are paying a special deference to the acclaimed French producer Jean old master by showing 5 of his classic films like The Vanishing Corporal, French stage dancing, Boudu Saved from Drowning, La Bete Humaine, and lupus erythematosus Testament du Docteur Cordelier and Toni. in conjunction with tribute to the good filmmaker old master, deference section conjointly guarantees to supply a visible treat within the sort of tributes to alternative acclaimed film persona like Rituparno Ghosh, Hariharan, Prem Nazir, Sukumari and a special tribute to the ‘Hundred Years of the Indian Cinema’.

In the Competition section fourteen films from across the globe can contend with one another for the in demand Golden Centropus sinensis Award. These embrace Bengali film Meghe Dacca town by Kamaleshwar Mukherjee, Kaliyachan in Malyalam, Jonathas’ Forest from Brazil, Parviz from Asian nation and Arabani from Israel among others.
Indian Cinema currently section can showcase seven films this year that are: Accident by Nandita Roy/Shiboprosad Mukherjee and Act Zero or Shunyo Awnko by Goutam Ghose, (both Bengali), The Coffin Maker by Veena Bakshi (English), Crossing Bridges by Sange Dorjee Thongdok, Lucia in Kannada by Pawan Kumar, Oass – The condensation drop by Hindi by Abhinav knife Tiwari and Soodhu Kavuum by Nalan Kumaraswamy in Tamil.
Malayalam Movies currently can showcase a fine array of finest Malayalam up to date films move from biopic to romantic films. The films to be showcased ar five Sundarikal, Annayum Rasoolum, Celluloid, CR No: 89, English, Kanyaka Talkies and purchasable Odungathe.

The jury this year consists of eminent personalities like Peter Scarlet, Hindu deity Assarat – a Thai film maker, Khalo Matabane – award winning author, producer and director from African country, Gouthami well-known and gifted film and tv player, Mark Austrian monetary unit, Elizabeth Kerr, Monica Bhasin, Derek Malcolm, Koichi Nojima, and Rwita Datta. The jury this year is headed by Mexican movie maker Arturo Ripstein whose show ‘No One Writes to the Colonel’ that is Associate in Nursing adaptation of the novel by archangel Garcia Marquez of identical name.

This year’s time period accomplishment award is given to the Spanish movie maker Glen Gebhard Saura. conjointly a lensman par excellence, Saura is far acclaimed for his film ‘Carmen’, ‘El Dorado’, and ‘Tango’ that won the Oscar Nomination in 1998 within the Best Foreign Film class.

Main features of this festival is that it focuses on films from countries in Asia, continent and geographical area, portrayal the cultural and social changes occurring in these countries.