The organizers of the upcoming International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) announced their selection of Indian films yesterday for the sections Indian Cinema Now and Malayalam Cinema Today. These include festival films Koozhangal, Pedro, Shankar’s Fairies and Deep6 as well as the acclaimed Malayalam features Nayattu and The Great Indian Kitchen.
Organized by the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy on behalf of the Department of Cultural Affairs, the 26th edition will be held from 10 to 17 December in Thiruvananthapuram, the state capital. The institution has chosen nine films for the Indian Cinema Now section, and 14 films for the Malayalam Cinema Today.
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Koozhangal (Pebbles), which will represent India in the Best International Feature Film category, and Prabhash Chandra’s Hindi-Kashmiri film Be Ches Ne Veth (I'm Not The River Jhelum) will also compete in the International competition section. As will the Malayalam films Forbidden by Tara Ramanujan and The Arbit Documentation Of An Amphibian Hunt by Krishan RK.
According to an online report by The Hindu, the films for Indian Cinema Now were chosen by filmmakers Madhupal, PN Ramachandra and Santhosh Mundoor, and film critics Nandini Ramnath and CS Venketeswaran. Madhupal was the chairperson who led the committee. The Malayalam films were selected by chairperson and director Harikumar, writer E Santosh Kumar, Miriam Joseph, filmmakers Don Palathara and Sajin Babu.
The entire list of titles:
Indian Cinema Now
Koozhangal (Pebbles) - Dir PS Vinothraj / Tamil
Be Ches Ne Veth (I'm Not The River Jhelum) - Dir Prabhash Chandra / Hindi, Kashmiri
Pedro - Dir Natesh Hegde / Kannada
Jhini Bini Chadariya (The Brittle Thread) - Dir Ritesh Sharma / Hindi, Bhojpuri, Hebrew, English
Life Is Suffering. Death Is Salvation - Dir Arvind Pratap / Bhojpuri
Boomba Ride - Dir Biswajeet Bora / Assamese
Baagh (The Tiger) - Dir Sourish Dey / Bengali
Shankar's Fairies - Dir Irfana Majumdar / English
Deep6 - Dir Madhuja Mukherjee / Bengali
Malayalam Cinema Today
Forbidden - Dir Tara Ramanujan
The Arbit Documentation Of An Amphibian Hunt - Dir Krishand RK
The Following Persons - Dir Sidhartha Siva
Hawk's Muffin - Dir Krishnendu Kalesh
Allusion - Dir Vignesh P Sasidharan
Avanovilona - Dirs Sherry Govind, Deepesh T
Bannerghatta - Dir Vishnu Narayanan
Who Knows - Dir Sanu Varghese
Sunny - Dir Ranjith Sankar
Stomp - Dir Rahman Brothers - Sajas Rahman, Shinos Rahman
Tree Full of Parrots - Dir Jayaraj Rajasekharan Nair
Nayattu - The Hunt - Dir Martin Prakkat
The Great Indian Kitchen - Dir Jeo Baby
Woman With a Movie Camera - Dir Atal Krishnan