5th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala

5th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (8th to 12 th June 2012 at Thiruvananthapuram ,Kerala ,India)
 List of Competition Films
 Animation Films
  1 Abhimanyu the Legend (Chiranth) 2 Addiction (Vivek Kumar) 3 Bemata (Nina Sabnani) 4 Bharam-The Burden (K. Abhilash) 5 Consequence ( Raghu M. ) 6 Dil Maange Green Ganesh ( Anupakumar B.G.) 7 Flight ( Sugandh ) 8 Incredible India ( R.A and Chiranjit ghosh ) 9 Karim Barber ( Tushar B.More ) 10 Maharaja International Bank ( Rushika.T and Saptak paul) 11 Pall Bill Will ( Amit|Chiranjith Ghosh ) 12 Roars ( Chiranjith Ghosh ) 13 Solitude ( Sachin Takle ) 14 The Common Man ( Jyostna Gharat/Ravindra D.Jadhav)
 Campus Film
15 One Rupee Tip ( Rojin Thomas ) 16 Present Tense: Perversions Today Tomorrow ((Sreeram Ramesh ) 17 Sudden Death ( Rycard Appu George ) 18 Thaniye ( Renjith R. Nair ) 19 Umma ( Mahesh Gopal ) 20 Violet ( Vincent Jose)
 Long Documentary
  21 Earth Witness: Reflection on the Time & the Timeless (Akansha Joshi ) 22 Fried fish, chicken soup & a premiere show (Mamta Murthy) 23 Lokame Tharavadu ( Rifa Shalees Chennara ) 24 Metroxical New York ( Kousalya Jeganathan ) 25 Still Standing ( Pankaj Johar ) 26 The Memories of a Tragic God ( V.K.Anilkumar ) 27 The Rat Race ( Miriam Chandy Menacherry ) 28 The Subtext of Anger ( Vandana Kohli ) 29 The Third Eye of Resistance ( Razi ) 30 Tiger Dynasty (S.Nallamuthu ) Music Video 31 An Old Woman (Renu Savant) 32 Flow ( Sreejith N.) 33 Inspiration ( Viveka Chauhan ) 34 Mr.Cabman ( Chinthala Sai Kumar Reddy ) 35 Shy Boy ( Reya Kundu ) 36 Song of Coastal Lillies ( Sreemith N.) 37 Un-Expressed ( Balaji V.C.)  
Short Documentary
38 A Pinch of Skin ( Priya Goswami ) 39 Ate Roll ( Jessica Sadana ) 40 Bashar Nawaz..Through the eyes of a poet ( Jayprad Desai ) 41 Building Blocks ( Samik ) 42 City's Edge ( Sandeep K.R.Singh ) 43 Dilli ( Rintu Thomas|Sushmit Ghosh ) 44 Dissent Overdose ( Taha Siddiqui|Zeyad M.Khan) 45 Far From the Main Stream ( Patdeep Chaudhuri ) 46 Get Up Stand Up ( Sreemith N. ) 47 Girl with the Kite ( Walter D'Cruz ) 48 Home-Our Garden of Eden ( Suresh Elamon ) 49 Human Trafficking ( Shila Datta ) 50 I am Micro (Shumona Goel|Shai Heredia ) 51 Kavioor Revamma ( Lenin Rajendran ) 52 My Mother's Daughter ( Fathima Nizaruddin) 53 Paradise Lost ( Sreejith Paul ) 54 Play Things (Mrinmoy Nandi ) 55 Scream of Silence (Santhosh P.D. ) 56 The Five Elements ( Mohan Kumar Valsala) 57 The Golden Girls ( Madhusudan Shi ) 58 The Man Who Moved the Mountain ( Kundan Rajan ) 59 Vision Through Images ( Mithun Pramanik) 60 Wate(ve)r ( Geethika|Sudip )  
Short Fiction
61 After Glow ( Kaushal Oza ) 62 Allah is Great ( Andrea Iannetta ) 63 Alone? ( Tiyash Sen ) 64 An Accident ( Balaji V.C. ) 65 Audacity ( Anirban Roy ) 66 Black Rock (Vikrant Pawar ) 67 Bombay Snow (Chinmay Nagesh Dalvi) 68 Candle Mombatti ( Puneet Prakash ) 69 Conesty Conesty ( Baba Azmi ) 70 Debt (Jean Paul Lal ) 71 Demon ( Simon George) 72 In Between ( Manuja Tyagi) 73 Key Hole ( Rafeek Ibrahim) 74 Late in the Night (Sandeep Chatterjee) 75 Magnet Chumbak Marathi ( Gaurav Shimpi ) 76 Mujh Natwaan Ke Bare Mein ( Suraj P.Ahirwar) 77 Photu ( Kunal S. Walve ) 78 Recovery ( Libin Chandran ) 79 Rizwan Rizwan, The Guardian of Paradise ( Deepthi Khurana) 80 Rock and Egg ( Romi Meitei ) 81 Sattu's Goggles ( Shaheen Muhammed) 82 Shaukat Khan's Dream (Ritwik Mukherjee ) 83 Shooter ( Tejas Joshi ) 84 Silent Dark Eyes ( Rajesh Divakaran ) 85 Silent Prayer ( Manoj Leonal Jahson) 86 Smoker ( M.V.Manoj ) 87 The Date ( Rishav Rastogi ) 88 The Foot Wear ( Melila ) 89 The Heart Needs No Reason ( Mitu ) 90 The Match Box ( Karthik ) 91 The Tigers, They are all Dead ( Reema Sengupta ) 92 Town Cinema Manager ( Prateek Vats ) 93 Vesham ( Sujeeth Sign ) 94 Wonderland@Alice ( Kiran|Rahul)

AMOUR (Love) by Michael Haneke won the Palme d'Or in 65th Festival de Cannes

65th Festival de Cannes, the official Jury presided over by Nanni Moretti revealed the award winners. FEATURE FILMS Palme d'Or AMOUR (Love) by Michael Haneke Grand Prix REALITY by Matteo Garrone Award for Best Director Carlos Reygadas for POST TENEBRAS LUX Jury Prize THE ANGELS’ SHARE by Ken Loach Award for Best Actor Mads Mikkelsen in JAGTEN (The Hunt) by Thomas Vinterberg Award for Best Actress Cristina FLUTUR & Cosmina STRATAN in DUPÃ DEALURI (Beyond The Hills) by Cristian MUNGIU SHORT FILMS Palme d'Or SESSIZ-BE DENG (Silent) by L. Rezan Yesilbas Camera d' Or BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD by Benh Zeitlin presented in Un Certain Regard Selection Award for Best Screenplay Cristian Mungiu for pour Dupã dealuri (Beyond The Hills) The Jury of the CST has awarded the "PRIX VULCAIN DE L’ARTISTE-TECHNICIEN" to: Charlotte Bruss CHRISTENSEN, for the outstanding cinematography of the film JAGTEN (The Hunt) byThomas VINTERBERG .Claude Miller’s Thérèse Desqueyroux starring Audrey Tautou, Gilles Lellouche and Anaïs Demoustier, was screened at the end of the ceremony.

FESTIVAL DE CANNES2012- UN CERTAIN REGARD AWARDS

Un Certain Regard Section of FESTIVAL DE CANNES 2012 presented 20 films directed by 26 directors hailing from 17 different countries. Four of the works were first films.Presided over by Tim ROTH (actor, director), the Jury was comprised of Leïla BEKHTI (actress), Sylvie PRAS (head of cinema - Centre Pompidou Paris, artistic director - La Rochelle Festival), Tonie MARSHALL (director, producer) and Luciano MONTEAGUDO (critic - Pagina/12 - Buenos Aires). PRIZE OF UN CERTAIN REGARD DESPUÉS DE LUCIA by Michel FRANCO SPECIAL JURY PRIZE LE GRAND SOIR by Benoît DELÉPINE and Gustave KERVERN UN CERTAIN REGARD AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS Suzanne CLÉMENT for her performance in LAURENCE ANYWAYS directed by Xavier DOLAN UN CERTAIN REGARD AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS Emilie DEQUENNE for her performance in À PERDRE LA RAISON directed by Joachim LAFOSSE SPECIAL DISTINCTION OF THE JURY DJECA by Aida BEGIC (Children of Sarajevo)

The Critics' -FIPRESCI -Prizes of 65th Festival de Cannes 2012

FIPRESCI jury of Festival de Cannes composed of film critics presented three prizes. Prize, Official Competition: In the Fog (V tumane) by Sergei Loznitsa. Prize, "Un Certain Regard": Beasts Of The Southern Wild by Benh Zeitlin. Prize, parallel sections: Hold Back (Rengaine) by Rachid Djaïdani (presented in the Directors' Fortnight). Jury members were: Borislav Andjelic, Serbia, president Isabelle Danel, France Rita di Santo, UK Paola Casella, Italy Ronald Rovers, Netherlands Laura Laufer, France Pamela Bienzóbas, Chile Beatrice Behn, Germany Rui Tendinha, Portugal