The 18th International Film Festival of Kerala is scheduled to be held from December eh to 13th at Thiruvananthapuram. The festival is organized by Kerala State Chalachitra Academy on behalf of Cultural Affairs Department, Govt. of Kerala. The list of films in the Competition, Indian Cinema Nov and Malayalam Cinema Today sections has been finalized. Festival will have 10 International Films, two Malayalam and two other language Indian Films in its prestigious Competition section.
The details of the films are as follows:
International Competition Section:
1. 101 Questions/101 Chodyangal [Dir: Sidhartha Siva / Malayalam / 106 min / 2012]
2. Arbani [Dir: Adi Adwan / lsrael / 84min/ 2013]
3. Capturing Dad/Chilli o tori ni [Dir: Ryota Nakano/Japan/74min.2012]
4. Club Sandwich [Dir Fernando Eimbeke/Mexico/82min/2013]
5. Const ructors/St roiteli [Dir: Aciilklian Yerzhanovi/ Kazakhstan/71 min/ 2013]
6. Errata [Dir: Ivan Vescovo /Argentina/76min/2012]
7. Inercia [Dir: Isabel Muitioz/Mexico/70min/2013]
8. Jonathas' Forest [Dir: Srgio Anclrade/Brazil/99min/2012]
9. Meghe Dhaka Tara [Dir: Kamalcswar Mukherjee/Bengali/152min/2013]
10. Parviz [Dir: Majid Barzegarilran/107min/2012]
11. So be it/Astu [Dir: Surnitra Bliave& Sunil Suktliankari/ Marathi/123min/ 2013]
12. Taj Mahal [Dir: Danesh Fighba Shavi / lran / 82min]
13. The Battle of Tabato [Dir: Joao Viana/ Guinea-Bissau / Portugal /83min]
14. The Master of the Play/Kaliyachan [Dir.Farook Abdul Rahiman/Malayalam/100min/2012]
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Indian Cinema Now:
1. Accident [Dir: Nandita Roy & Shiboprosad Mukherjee/Bengali/128min/2013]
2. Crossing Bridges [Dir: Sarme Dorjee Thongdolc / Sherdukpen/102min/2013]
3. Liar's Dice [Dir Geethu Mohandas/ Hindi / 101min/2013]
4. Lucia [Dir: Pawan Kumar/Kannada/ 136 min/2013]
5. OASS- The Dew Drop [Dir: Abhinav Shiv Tiwari / Hindi / 105min/2013]
6. Soodhu Kavvum [Dir. Nalan Kinnarasamy/Tamil / 133min/2013]
7. The Coffin Maker [Dir: Veena Bakshi/English/l16min/2013]
Malayalam Cinema Today
1. 5 Sundarikal [Dir: Shyju Khalid, Sameer Thahir, Ashiq Abu, Amal Neerad, Anwar Rasheed]
2. Annayum Rasoolum [Dir: Rajeev Ravi]
3. Celluloid [Dir: Kamal]
4. CR NO: 89 [Dir: Sudevan P.P. ]
5. English [Dir: Shyamaprasad]
6. Kanyaka Talkies/ Virgin Talkies [Dir: K.R.Mano]
7. Venal Odungathe/ The Endless Summer [Dir: Sanjeev Sivan]
The Committee consisting of Sri. A. Meera Sahib(Film Critic), Sri. K.K.Chandran(Filmmaker), Sri. C.S.Venkiteswaran (Film Critic), Sri. Albert Antony(Filmmaker) and Smt. Sulochana Ram Mohan (Writer and Poet) made the selection of International Films in Competition.
The Committee for the selection of Malayalam Films in Competition and Malayalam Cinema Today sections include Sri. T.V.Chandran(Filmmaker), Prof. Chandramati (Author and Film Critic) and Sri. V.B.K. Menon(Producer).
The Committee consisting of Sri. Renji Panicker (Filmmaker), Sri. Premchand (Writer), Sri. Jose Thomas (Filmmaker), Smt. Bhagyalakshmi (Dubbing Artist) selected the Indian films to be screened in Competition and Indian Cinema Now sections.
