18th International Film Festival of Kerala 2013 - Complete List of Films Selected

 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.

Kerala theater owners object to screen controversial film 'Kalimannu'

Kerala theater owners object to screen controversial film 'Kalimannu'

Acclaimed Director Blessy's latest flick 'Kalimannu' has been in the news since the project was announced. The film deals the relation ship between a pregnant women and her unborn child. Shwetha Menon plays the lead role in the film who was pregnant in real life when they began shooting Director Blessy who is always known for capturing images as real as possible wanted to film the delivery of Shwetha for real and use it in the film instead of her enacting the scene. Both Shwetha & her husband agreed to it beforehand. Eventhough the news was made public much before filming began it was only after this particular scene was shot the controvorsey blew out of proportion.

This public had mixed reaction about this. Many celebrities, politicians, including women condemned the act. Many even went to the lengths of ridiculing Shwetha and her family. The theater owners then said will screen the movie only after censor procedure has been completed. The film was censored last week and got U/A certificate without any cuts. But now the theaters owners have come up with a new demand that they want a special preview of the film before its release which will be watched by certain people or members of organizations who objected the release of the film. Only if they gives the film a 'green chit' they will co-operate with the release of the film.

But Kerala Film Chamber said this is the decision of a few in the Theater owners organization and there is no official ban and will provide full support to the film passed by Censor Board.

Mohanlal did a full monty for Blessy's award winning film 'Thanmathra' which even though passed by Censors felt the wrath of audience, back in 2005. Due to negative reactions to the scene he had to chop down those after day 1.