20th International Film Festival of Kerala (20th IFFK) Films selected in Indian Cinema Section

INDIAN CINEMA NOW

Capital I/ Capital I 
Director: Amartya Bhattacharya / 2014/Odia/86 mins

Cinema Wallah/ Cinemawala 
Director: Kaushik Ganguly 2015/Bengali/105 mins

Crime is Punishment/ Kutrame Thandanai 
Director: Manikandan Mathialagan /2015/Tamil/99 mins

I am not He….She/ Nanu Avanalla Avalu 
Director: Lingadevaru B S/ 2014/ Kannada /115 mins

Like a Play/ Natoker Moto 
Director Debesh Chatterjee/2014/Bengali/121 mins

Opalaa… The journey of a Woman/ Onyo Opalaa 
Director:Satarupa Sanyal/ 2015/ Bengali / 111 mins

Song of the Horned Owl/ Dau Huduni Methai (Bodo)
Director: Manju Borah/2015/Assamese/78 mins

20th International Film Festival of Kerala (20th IFFK) Films selected for international Competition

COMPETITION FILMS

 

Bopem
Kazakstan / Colour / 77 min / Kazakh / 2015
Director: Zhanna Issabayeva

Clarisse or Something About us / Clarisse ou alguma cois sobre nos dois 
Brasil / Colour / 85 min / Portuguese / 2015
Director: Petrus Cariry

Degrade / Dégradé 
Palestine/France/Qatar / Colour / 85 min / Arabic / 2015
Director: Arab Abunasser & Tarzen Abunasser

Entanglement / Dolanma 
Turkey / Colour / 93 min / Turkish / 2015
Director: TUNÇ Davut

Immortal / Mamiroo 
Iran / Colour / 90 min / Persian / 2015
Director: Hadi Mohaghegh

Jalal's Story / Jalaler Golpo 
Bangladesh / Colour / 109 min / Bengali / 2014
Director: Abu Shahed Emon

Murder in Pacot / Meurtre à Pacot 
Haiti/France/Norway / Colour / 130 min / French/Haitian / 2014
Director: Raoul Peck

No Woman's Land / Raj Kahini 
India / Colour / 155 min / Bengali / 2015
Director: Srijit Mukherji

Shadow Behind the Moon / ANINO SA LIKOD NG BUWAN 
Philippines / Colour / 121 min / Tagalog / 2015
Director: Jun Robles Lana

The Black Hen / Kalo Pothi 
Nepal / Coulor / 90 min / Nepali / 2015
Director: Min Bahadur Bham

The Painted House / Chaayam Poosiya Veedu 
India / Colour / 101 min / Malayalam / 2015
Director: Satish & Santosh Babunesan

The Trap / Ottaal 
India / Colour / 81 min / Malayalam / 2014
Director: Jayaraj R

The Violin Player / The Violin Player 
India / Colour / 72 min / Hindi / 2015
Director: Bauddhayan Mukherji

Yona / Yona 
Israel / Colour / 100 min / Hebrew
2014 Director: Nir Bergman

20th International Film Festival of Kerala- “Signature Film Contest”

International Film Festival of Kerala - IFFK Official

As a part of the 20th International Film Festival of Kerala, Kerala State Chalachitra Academy is conducting a “Signature Film Contest”.
This contest is part of Chalachitra Academy’s initiative to promote young talents and fresh ideas. Those who are interested can send in their scripts and storyboards to “Secretary, Kerala State Chalachitra Academy, Sasthamangalam, Thiruvananthapuram” or can be submitted in person on or before 20th October, 2015. The duration of the film has to be 20 seconds.
The best submission will be honoured with a prize money of Rs 25,000 in the opening ceremony. The entries will be evaluated by a committee consisting of eminent personalities from film industry.
International Film Festival of Kerala .

The Venezuelan film From Afar won Golden Lion award of 72 nd Venice film festival 2015

The Venezuelan film, Desde Alla, or From Afar has won the top Golden Lion prize at the Venice film festival. A low-profile film from an unknown first-time director  carried away the Venice film festival’s prestigious top prize the Golden Lion. Lorenzo Vigas’s film From Afar (Desde Allá) par excelled the works from such high-profile names as Charlie Kaufman, Tom Hooper,  Laurie Anderson and Alexander Sokurov. This dark drama, about the relationship between a middle-aged gay man and a violent young street tough, was certainly one of the discoveries of the festival.In From Afar - the first Venezuelan film ever to play in competition in Venice was selected by Jury president Alfonso Cuaron, Emmanuel Carrère Pawel Pawlikowski, Lynne Ramsay, Taiwan’s Hou Hsiao-hsien and Turkey’s Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Francesco Munzi, Diane Kruger and  Elizabeth Banks. Other award:

Golden Lion: From Afar (Lorenzo Vigas)

Silver Lion for Best Director: Pablo Trapero (The Clan)

Grand Jury Prize: Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson)

Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Fabrice Luchini (L’Hermine)

Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Valeria Golino (Per Amor Vostro)

Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor: Abraham Attah, (Beasts Of No Nation)

Best Screenplay: Christian Vincent (L’Hermine)

Special Jury Prize:

 Frenzy (Emin Alper)Venice Horizons

Best Film: Free In Deed (Jake Mahaffy)

Best Director: Brady Corbet (The Childhood of a Leader)

Special Jury Prize: Neon Bull (Gabriel Mascaro)

Special Prize for Best Actor: Dominique Leborne (Tempête)

Best Short Film: Belladonna (Dubravka Turic)

Lion of the Future – “Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice Award for a Debut Film: The Childhood of a Leader (Brady Corbet)

Venice Classics

Best Documentary on Cinema: The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin (Yves Montmayeur)

Best Restoration: Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini)

"Mad Max: Fury Road" Wins FIPRESCI Grand Prix

George Miller will receive a new award for his latest dystopian film "Mad Max: Fury Road", at the upcoming San Sebastián Film Festival. The Australian filmmaker will collect the FIPRESCI Grand Prix 2015, attributed by film critics from all over the world, during the opening ceremony of the 63rd edition of the Spanish festival, on the 18th of September. "You could have knocked me over with a feather! It's lovely to have this great cohort of critics acknowledge our collective labours in this way," he replied to the announcement.
In an open poll, 493 members of the International Federation of Film Critics, FIPRESCI, first nominated any feature-length work premièred since July 2014, and then chose among four finalists: Hou Hsiao-Hsien's "The Assassin" (Nie yin niang), László Nemes's "Son of Saul" (Saul fia), Jafar Panahi's "Taxi" and Miller's "Mad Max: Fury Road".
The latest film in the Mad Max saga, which premiered in Cannes last May, will be screened as a special event during the San Sebastián Film Festival, where the FIPRESCI Grand Prix has been presented since its creation in 1999, to filmmakers like Jean-Luc Godard, Michael Haneke, Paul Thomas Anderson, Jafar Panahi, Pedro Almodóvar, Nuri Bilge Ceylan or Richard Linklater.

 This dystopian film tells us a story in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and everyone is fighting for the necessities of life, there are two rebels who just might be able to restore order—Max (Tom Hardy), a man of action and few words, who seeks peace of mind following the loss of his wife and child in the aftermath of the chaos, and Furiosa (Charlize Theron), a woman of action who believes her path to survival may be achieved if she can make it across the desert back to her childhood homeland. A typical dystopian film is one which is often, but not always, set in the future, in a society where the government is corrupt and/or ineffectual

സംസ്ഥാന ചലച്ചിത്ര അവാര്‍ഡുകൾ പ്രഖ്യാപിച്ചു

ജയരാജ് സംവിധാനം ചെയ്ത ഒറ്റാൽ മികച്ച ചിത്രം. എം.വി പത്മകുമാറിന്റെ മൈ ലൈഫ് പാര്‍ട്ണർ മികച്ച രണ്ടാമത്തെ ചിത്രമായി തിരഞ്ഞെടുക്കപ്പെട്ടു. ഒരാള്‍പ്പൊക്കം ഒരുക്കിയ സനല്‍കുമാർ ശശിധരനാണ് മികച്ച സംവിധായക ൻ  അവലംബിത തിരക്കഥ-രഞ്ജിത്-ചിത്രം-ഞാ ൻ 

ഗാനരചയിതാവ്-ഒ.എസ് ഉണ്ണിക്കൃഷ്ണന്‍(ഇത്ര പകലിനോട് ഒത്തുചേര്‍ന്ന... ചിത്രം ലസാഗു)
സംഗീത സംവിധായകന്‍ രമേശ് നാരായണന്‍(ആദിത്യ കിരണങ്ങള്‍ അഞ്ജനമെഴുതിയ..)
പശ്ചാത്തല സംഗീതം-ബിജിബാൽ
പിന്നണി ഗായകന്‍-യേശുദാസ്(ചിത്രം-വൈറ്റ് ബോയ്‌സ്)
പിന്നണി ഗായിക-ശ്രേയ ഘോഷാല്‍ (വിജനതയില്‍...ചിത്രം- ഹൗ ഓള്‍ഡ് ആർ യു)
കലാമൂല്യം ജനപ്രീതിയും നേടിയ ചിത്രം-ഓംശാന്തി ഓശാന
വസ്ത്രാലങ്കാരം-സമീറ സനീഷ്
നവാഗതസംവിധായകന്‍-എബ്രിഡ് ഷൈന്‍(1983)
കുട്ടികളുടെ ചിത്രം-അങ്കൂരം, സംവിധായകന്‍ ടി ദീപേഷ്
പ്രത്യേക ജൂറി പരാമര്‍ശം- പ്രതാപ് പോത്തന്‍(ചിത്രം-വണ്‍സ് അപ്പോണ്‍ എ ടൈം ദെയര്‍ വാസ് എ കള്ളന്‍)
ചലച്ചിത്ര അധിഷ്ഠിത ലേഖനം-രവിമേനോന്‍
സിനിമലേഖനം-കെ.സി ജയചന്ദ്രന്‍(പായലുപോലെ പ്രണയം)
മികച്ച കഥാകൃത്ത്-സിദ്ദാര്‍ഥ് ശിവ
ചിത്രസംയോജകൻ-ലിജോ പോൾ
ബാല നടന്‍-അദൈ്വത്
ബാല നടി-ഫാത്തിമ
ശബ്ദ ഡിസൈന്‍-തപസ്‌നായക്(ചിത്രം-ഇയ്യോബിന്റെ പുസ്തകം)
ഡബ്ബിങ് ആര്‍ട്ടിസ്റ്റ്-ഹരിശാന്ത്(ചിത്രം-വൈറ്റ് ബോയ്‌സ്)
ഡബ്ബിങ് ആര്‍ട്ടിസ്റ്റ്-വിമ്മി മറിയം ജോര്‍ജ്(ചിത്രം-മുന്നറിയിപ്പ്)
നൃത്തസംവിധായകന്‍-വിക്രമാദിത്
ജനപ്രിയ-കലാമേന്ന-ഓംശാന്തി ഓശാന
മേക്കപ്പ്മാന്‍-മനോജ് അങ്കമാലി(ഇയ്യോബിന്റെ പുസ്തകം)

Berlinale Talent Campus, Goethe Institute and FIPRESCI inform

CALL FOR ENTRIES - TALENT PRESS 2016

Berlinale Talents is a vibrant platform for emerging film critics and journalists to improve their working skills and discover current trends in world cinema. Along with our Talent Press partners we invite you to apply for the 2016 edition.

At Talent Press, the most promising critics and journalists from around the world meet people, review movies and take part in events throughout the entire festival and Berlinale Talents. They share their experiences and thoughts in an extensive essay, written under the tutelage of renowned mentors. All work done in Berlin is published at the partner websites of FIPRESCI (the International Federation of Film Critics) and Goethe-Institut as well as within the participants' own international media networks.

APPLY NOW AT http://www.berlinale-talents.de/story/41/application-2016.html
DEADLINE: 1 September 2015, 23:59 (CET)

Great to Meet You

Talent Press is designed for film critics and journalists (both online and print) who are approximately in the fifth to tenth year of their career and have already published articles in newspapers, film magazines, on websites etc. As English is the basic language for all Talent Press events, participants should be fluent in writing and speaking. All participants should be eager to report on films screened at the Berlin International Film Festival and on events held during Berlinale Talents.

Please get to know our former Talent Press participants

What We Will Offer You

Talent Press offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet and spend a week with 300 talented film creatives from all over the world and to experience the day-to-day buzz of a prestigious festival. You will be guided through the Talent Press programme and and receive feedback on your work by internationally renowned mentors and experts. According to your chosen topic for the essay, you have the opportunity to access film screenings, make interviews and take part in all masterclasses and other events of Berlinale Talents. Your work will be published and promoted on the websites of Berlinale Talents, Goethe-Institut and FIPRESCI. Berlinale Talents offers you free accommodation in Berlin during the time of the event. Furthermore, Berlinale Talents will cover a share of your travel expenses (depending on your country of origin).

See the World Differently

In addition to the Talent Press workshops, Berlinale Talents offers a programme of around 60 master classes, roundtables and interactive panel discussions per year. Film professionals from the Berlinale, the European Film Market and many other experts of international reputation and from various backgrounds give insights into their work and enter into a direct dialogue with the audience.

Last year's Summit welcomed Darren Aronofsky, Claudia Llosa, Matthew Weiner, Ursula Meier, Joshua Oppenheimer, Alex McDowell, Joanna Hogg, The Yes Men, Wim Wenders, Bong Joon-Ho, Walter Salles, and many more.

If you want to see and hear more, please watch the live recordings of all our past editions.

Talent Press 2015 Alumni Highlights

Ana Sturm: Kino! Printed in “Kino! NO. 25/26 2015”, Slovenia
http://www.e-kino.si

Julia Cooper: The National Post
http://news.nationalpost.com/arts/movies/everything-is-as-bad-as-possible-exploring-dystopic-spaces-at-the-berlinale

Monty Majeed: Alliance Of Women Film Journalists Blog
http://goo.gl/IwvDyY

Michael Guarneri: Mubi
https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/a-life-in-the-dark-a-conversation-with-dirk-meier

Alonso Díaz de la Vega: El Universal
http://beta.eluniversal.com.mx/blogs/alonso-diaz-de-la-vega/segunda-vuelta

Oriana Franceschini: Desistfilm
http://blog.desistfilm.com/2015/02/12/berlinale-pool-side-view/

Oris Aigbokhaevbolo: TNS – True Nollywood Stories / Bakwa Magazine
http://tns.ng/on-the-place-of-african-cinema-at-european-festivals/
http://bakwamagazine.com/2015/04/24/on-the-place-of-african-cinema-at-european-festivals/