THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Horror flick fans, rejoice. For the first time in the history of the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK), a horror film will be screened at the fete at midnight.
Hugely popular Indonesian film Satan’s Slave is the flick selected for the midnight screening.
It will have a single screening on the fourth day of the fete at Nishagandhi Auditorium. Set in the 1980s, the film is different from the run-of-the-mill horror themes. Directed by Joko Anwar, the movie won as many as eight awards at the Indonesian film festival.
Celebrating Girl Power
The 22nd edition of IFFK will bring to the screen an array of films that showcase the most courageous and suave female characters who have graced Malayalam cinema during the 1970-1990 era.
The films will be screened as part of the ‘Avalkkoppam’ (With Her) category, and will have the most spoken-about female roles that Malayalam filmdom has seen during the period.
As many as seven flicks have been handpicked for screening under the ‘Avalkkoppam’ category. They are: Kallichellamma (P Bhaskaran, 1969), Kutyedathi (P N Menon, 1971), Avalude Raavukal (I V Sasi, 1978), Adaminte Vaariyellu (K G George, 1983), Desaadanakkili Karayaarilla (Padmarajan, 1986), Alicinte Anweshanam (T V Chandran, 1989), and Parinayam (Hariharan, 1994).
Japanese Animation Fare
The best of contemporary animation from Japan will be on show in a package titled ‘Anime: The best of contemporary Japanese animation’. Part of the Anime package would be films of the likes of In this corner of the World by Sunao Katabuchi, The Wind Rises by Hayao Miyazaki, The Tales of the Princess Kaguya by Isao Takahata, Miss Hokosai by Keiichi Hara and The Boy and the Beast by Mamoru Hosada.
The Tale of The Young Karl Marx
The Young Karl Marx, the film that had earned many a laurel at numerous international festivals, including the famed Berlin Festival, is set to captivate the audience at IFFK. The film, directed by Raoul Peck, will be screened as part of the World Cinema category.
The film narrates the tale of the journey that young Karl Marx undertakes during his encounter with Friedrich Engels, and the birth of the renowned Communist Manifesto. Italian director Raoul Peck brings on to the screen the barbaric treatment meted out to the working class of Europe during the nineteenth century by the capitalist bosses. Peck also narrates the conditions of poverty and exploitation faced by the labour class, as he elaborates the story of the life of Marx during the 1842-1847 period