19th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK 2014)

19th edition of International Film Festival of Kerala  got a awesome start yesterday with the screening of “Dancing Arabs“, an Israeli Movie Directed by Eran Riklis.

Hon’ble Chief Minister of Kerala Shri Oommen Chandy inaugurated one week-long film fest at Nishagandhi Auditorium, trivandrum by lighting the lamp.

Dignitaries from Cinema and Cultural field attended the inaugural event.

Director Marco Bellocchio was presented the Lifetime Achievement Award by State Minister for Cinema Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan.

IFFK will screen 140 hand picked films in 10 categories including:

1. International Competition
2. World Cinema
3. Contemporary Master
4. Retrospective
5. Indian Cinema
6. Malayalam Cinema Today
7. Country Focus
8. Jury Films
9. Chinese Film
10. French Films

Jury Panel of Competition section comprises of Xie Fei, Lawerence Kardish, Klaus Eder, Reis Celik and Sumitra Bhave.

14 Films included in  International Competition:

1.  The Ant Story  (Piprabidya)
   Bangladesh / Colour / 95 min / Bengali / 2013
   Direction: Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
2. The Bright Day (Rooz-e Roshan)
   Iran / Colour / 86 min / Persian / 2013
   Direction: Hossein Shahabi
3. December-1
   India / Colour / 97 min / Kannada / 2013
   Direction: P.Sheshadri
4. A Girl at My Door (Dohee Ya)
   South Korea/ Colour / 119 / |Korean / 2014
   Direction: July Jung
5. The Man of the Crowd (O Homem Das Multidoes)
   Brazil / Colour / 95 min / Portuguese / 2013
   Direction: Cao Guimaraes & Marcelo Gomes
6. The Narrow Frame of Midnight
   Morocco-UK-France-Qatar / Colour / 93 min / Arabic-French / 2014
   Direction: Tala Hadid
7. Oblivion Season (Fasle Faramoushi-e Fariba)
   Iran / Colour / 92 min / Persian / 2014
   Direction: Abbas Rafei
8. One for the Road (En el Ultimo Trago)
   Mexico / Colour / 91’ / Spanish / 2014
   Direction:Jack Zagha Kababie
9. Oonga
   India / Colour / 99 mins / Hindi-Odia / 2013
   Direction: Devashish Makhija
10. Refugiado
    Argentina-France / Colour / 90 min / Spanish / 2014
    Direction: Diego Lerman
11. Summer, Kyoto (Kyoto, Natsu)
    Japan / Colour / 88 min / Japanese / 2013
    Direction: Hiroshi Toda
12. They are the Dogs (C’est eux les Chiens..)
    Moroccol / Colour / 85 min/ 2013
    Direction: Hisham Lasri
13. Unto the Dusk (Asthamayam Vare)
    India / Colour / 106 min / Malayalam/ 2014
    Direction: Sajin Baabu
14. Zahir
    India / Colour / 104 min / Malayalam/2013
    Direction: Sidhartha Siva

Participation of 9000 Delegates around globe is expected during the fest, and it will be the record for IFFk.

Kerala State Chalachitra Academy is the event organisers and IFFK will conclude on December 19th.

State’s Capital city will be in Festival fever of Film. While peoples in Commercial Capital city, Kochi will on Biennale and Football Celebrations.

Also check whether the DVD’s of these films are available in ODC

Source : iffk.in