KOCHI: Cochin Film Society, as part of the monthly programme, will screen five films at Children’s park Theatre on Sunday. Three of them will be on the political life while the rest are based on the life on poets and poetry.
The screening will start at 3.30 pm with Visudha Pasu (Holy Cow), the last documentary filmed by Odessa Sathyan, one of the pioneers of the parallel cinema with people’s participation. The film, which discusses issues such as banning of cow slaughter was incomplete when Sathyan died. However, his daughter Sandra and Sathyan Odessa Anusmarana Samithi completed it.
The next will be an experimental film, Kuttippuram Palam (Kuttippuram Bridge), directed by noted cameraman Prathap Joseph. It is inspired from a poem of the same name by Edassery Govindan Nair and has no music or dialogue. The 78 minute film starts at 4.30 pm. ‘Ghar Wapsi’ a film by Ram Parthan focuses on the lives of street urchins who are victims of sexual exploitation of several kings beginning from their childhood. Kamala, a sex worker who was abused during childhood is the central character of the 23 minute film starting at 6 pm.
Next film , Poo Viriyunu Poo Kozhiyunnu, is made by visual media students of the Amrita School of Arts and Science,deals with the sorry state of the sculptures now at the Subhash Park. It will begin at 6.30 pm.
The last film, at 6.45 pm, is Maruvili, a journey by poet Anwar Ali through the poetic life of Attoor Ravi Varma based on the place and persons connected to his poetry. It has been made with the cooperation of the Kendra Sahithya Akademi.