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

Carlos Diegues, Brazilian filmmaker , to chair the jury for the Caméra D’or award of 65th Festival de Cannes.

Carlos Diegues, Brazilian filmmaker has been nominated as the chairperson of the jury for 65th Festival de Cannes Caméra D’or award.Carlos will be accompanied by Gloria Satta, journalist , Rémy Chevrin, representing the French Association of Film Cinematographers, Hervé Icovic, of the Federation of of Cinema, Audiovisual and Multimedia Industries, Michel Andrieu, representing the Society of Film Directors and Francis Gavelle, for the French Union of Film Critics. Bong Joon-Ho, Gael García Bernal, Roschdy Zem and Abbas Kiarostami were the past chairpersons in the Cannes Camera D’or jury.

65th FESTIVAL DE CANNES JURY FINALIZED

The Jury members of the Competition section of the 65th Festival De Cannes presided over by Nanni Moretti (Italian director, actor and producer ) has been finalized with Hiam Abbass (Palestinian director and actress), Andrea Arnold (British director and scriptwriter), Emmanuelle Devos (French actress), Diane Kruger (German actress), Jean Paul Gaultier (French designer), Ewan Mc Gregor (British actor), Alexander Payne (American director, scriptwriter and producer) et Raoul Peck (Haitian director, scriptwriter and producer).

60th edition of the San Sebastian Festival launches the I. Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum

The San Sebastian Festival launches the I. Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum, to take place on september 27 and 28 at the Festival’s 60th edition.This year’s San Sebastian Festival launches the I. Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum, thereby consolidating its position as a benchmark platform and hub between both film worlds. This Forum is an opportunity to promote projects of greater magnitude and strengthen the European and Latin American industries by encouraging cooperation between professionals and opening out to new international markets.The Co-production Forum is open to feature film projects from Europe and Latin America with a minimum duration of 60 minutes and 20% of their financing already assured. European projects must have a direct connection with Latin America. The Festival will select a maximum of 20 projects based on the reports of three international experts. Deadline for project registration: 30 June 2012.