21st IFFK- Turkish film 'Clash' directed by Mohamed Diabwon bagged the Golden Crow Pheasant award for best film and Yesim Ustaoglu the best director for her film 'Clair Obscur'

 

 

Twenty first edition of international film festival of Kerala(IFFK)  concluded this evening at  Thiruvananthapuram with the declaration and presentation of awards to the winners including Suvarna Chakoram and Rajatha Chakoram. Chief Minister of Kerala ,Pinarayi Vijayan presented the Suvarna Chakoram  award to Turkish film Clash. This film directed  'by Mohamed Diab bagged the Golden Crow Pheasant award for best film. The film, received a cash prize of Rs 15 lakh and a certificate,the Silver Crow Pheasant award for the best director went to Yesim Ustaoglu for her film Clair Obscur. Minister  for Cultural Affairs A.K. Balan ,Minister for Power  Kadakampally Surendran ,Secretary Cultural Affairs Rani George,Chairperson of the Chalachitra Academy Kamal,Vice Chairperson Bina Paul, Secretary Mahesh Panchu etc participated in the inaugural function and award presentation function. The award winning film ‘Clash ‘was screened. other awardees:

AUDIENCE AWARD : CLASH (Eshtebak)

CLASH (Eshtebak) | Director: Mohamed Diab

• FIPRESCI : BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM WAREHOUSED (Almacenados)

WAREHOUSED (Almacenados) | Director: Jack Zagha For the way in which it challenges the conventional form, content and language of cinema in terms of use of space, narration that reaches beyond cultural, linguistic and time barriers.

• FIPRESCI : BEST MALAYALAM FILM MANHOLE

MANHOLE | Director: Vidhu Vincent For the raw reality with which the film sheds light on the persistent inhumanity of manual scavengers in India, despite its being legally banned, in a cinematically eloquent manner.

• NETPAC : BEST MALAYALAM FILM : KAMMATIPAADAM

KAMMATIPAADAM| Director: Rajeev Ravi for giving an epic dimension to the issues of  friendship, violence and illicit profiteering inherent to gangster films and for masterfully animating genre conventions with social, political urgency.

   


NETPAC BEST ASIAN FILM : COLD OF KALANDAR

COLD OF KALANDAR | Director: Mustafa Kara for the purity of its cinematic brilliance in bringing out the universality of the struggle between Man and Nature, beauty and danger, love and hope….

• RAJATHA CHAKORAM FOR THE BEST DIRECTOR : Yesim Ustaoglu

CLAIR OBSCUR (Tereddüt) | Director: Yesim Ustaoglu For its subtle, but effective cinematic treatment of a global dimension across social classes from the perspective of psychological wounds affecting women.

• SUWARNA CHAKORAM FOR THE BEST FILM CLASH (Eshtebak)

CLASH (Eshtebak) | Director: Mohamed Diab The Jury unanimously underlines and applauds the excellent cinematographic work, that so aptly explains the historical shock of his country and sketches a living portrait of all the socio-political currents represented by real, authentic and truly human characters.

21st IFFK-Jayan Cherian's ‘Ka Bodyscapes’ is finally becoming the part of the International Film Festival of Kerala

  

‘Ka Bodyscapes’ directed by Jayan Cheriyan is finally becoming the part  of the 21^st edition of International Film Festival of Kerala 2016 .It was not exempted from censorship by CBFC (central board of film certification).The film is scheduled on December 14^th @11.30 in Tagore Theatre,15^th in Kalabhavan @8.45 P.M16th @3.30 P.M IN Nila. 

‘Ka Bodyscapes’ is the story of Three youth Haris,a ffree –spirited gay painter,Vishnu ,a rural kabaddi player and Haris’ object of desire and their friend Sia,an activist who refuses to conform to dominant norms of femininity,struggle to find space and happiness.Ace cinematographer M.J.Radhakrishnan is the DOP. Jayan Cheriyan, is a New York-based independent film maker. A revising committee headed by the CBFC  Chief Pankaj Nihlani had earlier refused certification for the public screening of Ka Bodyscapes on the ground that it contained “sensitive gay scenes, use of derogatory words against women, and vulgar dialogues ”.But many a films screened in the recently concluded IFFI had the scenes containing intimate scenes of gay, lesbian,transgender  relationship ,so also the IFFK. A movie without CBFC’s certification requires an exemption letter from the film certifying body in order to screen at the IFFK. However Jayan managed to obtain permission from the Court  to screen the film in the festival. The legal battle between Jayan and the CBFC is going on.

21st IFFK-A glittering start -Pinarayi Vijayan inaugurated the 21st International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK)

  

 The 21st International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) kicked off to a glittering start here on Friday.Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan inaugurated  the 21^st edition of International Film Festival of Kerala 2016 at Nishagandhi auditorium in Thiruvananthapuram.Minister  for Cultural Affairs A.K. Balan presided over the function . Finance Minister Thomas Isac , Life time achievement award winner Jiri Menzei, Jury chairperson  Michel Khleifi, ,Guest of honour Amol Palekar, Shashi Tharoor, MP, Academy Chairman Kamal ,Vice-Chairperson Bina Paul, Mayor V.K. Prasanth,Secretary for cultural Affairs Rani George , Academy Secretary Mahesh Panju  and persons connected with film industry were present. In the inaugural address the Chief Minister said” The Government of Kerala is committed to the Film Industry both as a medium of entertainment as well as an art form that communicates and educates. A healthy film Industry contributes greatly to the Economy of the State too. The Film Industry provides livelihood for thousands of people and the more films that are made the more job opportunities it creates. Films have become a means of attracting people to visit the State and in that way it gives a boost to tourism”. He presented the lifetime achievement award to  the eminent Czech director Jiri Menzel. The award carries a purse of Rs 5 lakh, a citation and a plaque. The 21st edition of the festival, will feature 188 films from 62 countries. In all, 13,000 delegates haveregistered.  The films will be shown on 13 screens, including the Nishagandhi auditorium which can seat 2,500 people. The opening film Parting –Raftan an Iranian-Afganistan film , story of immigrant couple Fereshteh and Nabi and their plight, directed byNavid Mahmoudi was screened.

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