Many had missed out on screenings on the first day as the seats were fully booked
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Delegates coming out of Kairali Sree Nila Theatre after a film screening on the first day of the 25th International Film Festival of Kerala in Thiruvananthapuram | Vincent Pulickal
Express News Service
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: On Wednesday, the opening day of 25th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK), the venues spotted a dull look with fewer visitors compared to previous years. Though nearly 2,500 delegates registered for the much-anticipated event, many didn’t turn up because of the lack of other attractions such as stalls and events. The free antigen tests for volunteers and delegates attending the event continued at Tagore Theatre which annoyed many as they could watch the screenings only after getting the Covid-19 negative certificates.
Finally, it is festival of films in Thiruvananthapuram
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Though delayed and scaled down, IFFK begins in city
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Though delayed and scaled down, IFFK begins in city Braving odds, the 25th edition of the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) began here on Wednesday.
Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement award this year, legendary French filmmaker Jean Luc Godard who greeted the Kerala audience from his home, was the toast of the inaugural function held at the Nishagandhi auditorium.
“I am sorry for speaking in the tongue of the dominators (English). Thank you very much Kerala. Thank you to the Kerala festival for screening good and sensible films. It is great that five of my films are being screened there,” he said, with a lit cigar in his hand.
The Names of the Flowers is on questions surrounding a witness to a historical event
Perhaps there was never a time when history was contested in daily political debates as is being done now. Multiple narratives of the same incident spread in mutually exclusive online bubbles and long-forgotten chapters from the past are revived as the lines between myth and history blur and falsification of history becomes common.
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The Names of the Flowers, debut directorial of Bahman Tavoosi, being screened in the International Competition category at the 25th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK), the questions are surrounding a particular witness to a historical event. In the higher ranges of Bolivia, the region where Ernesto Che Guevara was gunned down amid a guerilla war, the government is planning to organise events to mark the 50th anniversary of that event.
Waiting for Godard
Fumigated movie halls and antigentested delegates would be the hallmark of the 25th edition of the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK), which opens on February 10 at Thiruvananthapuram and would be mirrored in Kochi and Thalassery and Palakkad.
The prestigious festival despite the absence of international guests and programmers promises to be an interesting fare despite the reduced number of films.
Jasmila Zbanic’s ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’ (Where are you going, Aida?) in the backdrop of Bosnia’s brutal genocide would open the festival, which has close to 90 films, half of what a regular festival had. The film, which was completed over many years, tells the story of a woman translator who tries to save her husband and sons during the July 1995 massacre in Srebrenica where an estimated 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed.
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