The International Film Festival of Kerala is a yearly event organised by the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy on behalf of the Department of Cultural Affairs, Government of Kerala. The 12th edition of IFFK will be held at Thiruvananthapuram from 7th – 14th December 2007.
Other than IFFK Competition, the other major highlights are,
Retrospective : Jiri Menzel (7 movies) and Pedro Almodovar (13 movies)
and homage category including Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni and C.V. Sreeraman.
IFFK Competition
1. Teeth of Love/Ai Qing de Ya Chi(db)
Dir. Zhuang Yuxin
(China/Chinese/114 mins/35mm/2007)
2. Suely in the sky/o Cue de Suely
Dir. Karim ainouz
(Brazil/Portuguese/110 mins/35mm/2007)
3. El Rey de San Gregorio
Dir. Alfonso Gazitua
(Chile/spanish/35mm/2006)
4. Turtle family/Familia Tortuga(db)
Dir. Ruben Imaz
(Mexico/spanish/136 mins/35mm/2007)
5. The Old garden
Im Sang Soo
(South korea, Korean/112 mins/35mm/colour/2006)
6. 10+4/Das be alaveh Chahar(db)
Dir. Mania akbari
(Iran/Farsi/77 mins/35mm/2007)
7. XXY/XXY(db)
Dir. Lucia Puenzo
(Argentina/Spanish/90 mins/35mm/Apr-07)
8. Sleepwalking Land/Terra somnambula(db)
Dir. Teressa Prata
(Portugal,Mozambique/Portuguese,Xangana/103mins/2006)
9. Casket for hire/Ataul for Rent
Dir. Neal buboy Tan
(Philipines/Tagalog/93 mins/35mm/2007)
10. Getting Home/Luo Ye Gui Gen
Dir. Zhang Yang
(Hongkong, China/Chinese/97 mins/35mm/2007)
11. Bliss/Mutluluk
Dir. Abdullah Oguz
(Turkey/Turkish/105 mins/35mm/2007)
12. Lord! Let the Devil Steal my Soul/Probhu noshto Hoi Jai(db)
Dir. Agnidev Chatterjee
(India/Bengali/100 mins/35mm/2007)
13. Four Women/Naalu Pennungal
Dir. Adoor gopalakrishnan
(India/Malayalam/105 mins/35mm/2007)
14. Paradesi/English
Dir. P.T. Kunhi muhhammed
(India/Malayalam/134 mins/35mm/2007)
Indian Cinema Today
1. Doosra/Doosra
Anand subramaniam
(India/Hindi/114 mins/2006)
2. Gandhi, My father
Feroze Khan
(India/English/122 mins/2007)
3. Manorama-Six Feet under/ Manorama-Six Feet under
Navdeep singh
(India/Hindi/2007)
4. Restaurant/Restaurant
Sachin Kundalkar
(India/Marathi/2006)
5. Zero Zone/Shoonya
Arindam Mitra
(India/Hindi/2006)
6. 68 pages/68 pages
Sridhar rangayan
(India/Hindi/92 mins/2007)
7. Staying Alive
Anant Mahadevan
(India/Hindi/2007)
New Malayalam Cinema
1. AKG/AKG
Shaji N. Karun
(India/Malayalam/2007)
2. Kayyoppu/Kayyoppu
Ranjith
(India/Malayalam/2006)
3. Notebook/Notebook
Rosshan Andrews
(India/Malayalam/2006)
4. The Sea within/Ore kadal
Shyamaprasad
(India/Malayalam/2007)
5. Rathri Mazha
Lenin Rajendran
(India/Malayalam/110mins/2007)
6. Thakarachenda/Thakarachenda
Avira rebecca
(India/Malayalam/99mins/2006)
7. Thaniye
Babu Thiruvalla
(India/Malayalam/2006)
8. Unni/Unni
Murali Nair
(India, france/Malayalam/82 mins/2007)
World Section
1. Ballroom Dancing
Dir:Claudio Antonini
switzerland,germany/Italian/80 mins/2007
2. Chris/Chrigu
Dir:Jan Gassmann, Christian Ziorjen
Turkey/Swissgerman/Jan-07
3. The International//Beynelmilel
Dir:Muharrem Gulmez, Sirri Sureyya Onder
Italy,France/Turkish/2006
4. My Brother is an Only Child
Dir:Dannielle Luchetti
Romania/Italian/100 mins/2007
5. 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days//4 Luni, 3 Saptamini Si 2 Zile
Dir:Cristian Mungiu
colombia/Romanian/2007
6 A ton of luck/Sonar no cuesta Nada
Dir:Rodrigo Triana
Denmark/96 mins/2007
7. After the wedding/Efter bryllupet
Dir:Susane Bier
Russia/Danish/120 mins/2007
8. Alexandra/Aleksandra
Dir:Alexander Sokhurov
Brazil/Russian/90’/35mm/Colour/2007
9. And Along come tourists/Am Ende Kommen Touristen
Dir:Robert Thalheim
Brazil/german/85 mins/2007
10. Azure and Asmar
Dir:Michel Ocilet
Poland/French/99 mins/2006
11. Because of Love/Z milosci
Dir:Leszek Wosiewicz
Netherlands – Germany – Belgium/Polish/98’/2007
12. Blind/Blind
Dir:Tamar van Den Dop
Greece/Greek/98 mins/2006
13. Brides/Nyfes
Dir::Pantelis Voulgaris
Greece/Greek/128’/2004
14. Buddha collapsed In shame
Iran/Farsi/81 min/2007
dir:Hana MakhmALBAF
15. California Dreaming/nesfarsit
Romania/Romanian/155 mins/2007
Dir:Christian Nemescu
16. Calle Santa Fe
Dir:Carmen Castillo
Chile / France / Belgium/Spanish/163’/2007
17. Cobrador In god We Trust/
Dir:Paul Leduc
Mexico/Spanish/92 mins/2006
18. Crossing the dust/Parinawa la Ghobar
Dir:Shawkat A. Korki
Iraq, Kurdistan//74 mins/Nov-06
19. Curse of the Golden Flower/Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia
Dir:Zhang Yimou
Honk Kong-China/Mandarin/114/2006
20. Daratt/Dry Season
Dir:Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
France- Belgium-Chad/Arabic/96’/2006
21. Emotional arithmetic/
Dir:Paolo Barzan
Canada/English/90 mins/2007
22. Father/Otel
Dir:Ivan Solovov
Russia/Russian/100mins/2007
23. Fishdreams/Sonhos de Peixe
Dir:Kirill Michanovsky
Brazil, Russia, USA/Portuguese/110 mins/2006
24. Flanders
Dir::Bruno Dumont
France/French/91’/2005
25. Flight of the red balloon/
Dir:Hou Hsiao Hsien
France/French/133 mins/2007
26. foriegnor/Extranjera
Dir:Ines de oliviera Cesar
Argentina, Greece Poland/spanish/2007
27. Garage
Dir::Lenny Abrahamson
Ireland/Uk/Irish/95 mins/2007
28. Glory to the filmmaker
Dir:Takeshi Kitano
Japan/Japanese/102 mins/2007
29. Goodbye Bafana
Dir:Bille Auguste
Philippines/English ““ Xhosa/140’/2007
30. I was a Swiss Banker/I was a Swiss Banker
Dir:Thomas Imbach
Switzerland/eng/swis/danish/swedish/romanic/turkish/2007
31. Lives of Others/Das Leben der Anderen
Dir::Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Germany/German/137’/2006
32. Lost in Beijing
Dir:Li yu
China,/Chinese/112 mins/2007
33. Maroa
Dir::Solveig hoogesstein
Venezuela,Spain/Spanish/102 mins/2006
34. Me Myself/Koh Hai Ruk Jong Jareun
Dir:Pongpat Wachirabunjong
Thailand/Thai/117 mins/2007
35. Meisie
Dir:Daryl Roodt
South africa/Africaans/80 mins/2007
36. Monkeys in Winter/
Dir:Milena andanova
Bulgaria,Estonia/111mins/2006
37. Mourning Forest/Mogari no Mori
Dir:Naomi Kawase
France-Japan/French/97’/2007
38. Night Train/Ye che
Dir:Diao Yi Nan
China, hongkong, USA, France/94 mins/2007
39. Not Here To be Loved/Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé
Dir:Stephane Brize
France/French/93’/2005
40. Pan’s Labyrinth
Dir:guilermo tel Torro
Mexico/spanish/110mins/2006
41. Ploy
Dir:Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Thailand/Thai/107 mins/2006
42. Road to Guantanamo.
Dir:Mat Whitecross, Michael Winterbottom
UK/English-Urdu/95 min/2006
43. Silent Light/Stellet Licht
Dir:Carlos Reygadas
Mexico/Dutch/127 mins/2007
44. Shadows/Senki
Dir:Milcho Manchevski
Greece/Macedonian/120 mins/2007
45. Sistagod
Dir:Yao Ramesar
Trinidad and Tobago/English/72’/2006
46. Syndromes and a Century/Sang Sattawat
Dir:Apichat pong weerasethakul
Thailand/Thai/105mins/2006
47. The Art of Crying//Kunsten at græde i kor
Dir:Peter Schonau Fog
Denmark/Danish/106’/2006
48 The Banishment/Izgnanie
Dir:Andrey Zvyagintsev
Russia/Russian/150 mins/May-07
49. The Boss of It All//Direktören för det hele
Dir:Lars Von Trier
Holland/Danish/99’/35mm/Color/2006
50. The Grocer’s son/Le fils de L’epicier
Dir:Eric Guirado
France/french/96 mins/2006
51 The Home song stories
Dir:Tony aires
Australia/99 mins/2007
52. The International/Beynelmilel
Dir:Sirri Sureyya Onder and Muharremgulmez
Turkey/Turkish/106 mins/2006
53. The Lark House/La Masseria Delle Allodole
Dir:Paolo Taviani, Vitorio Tavian
Italy-France-Bulgaria-Spain//Italian/122’/2007
54. The lives of Others/Der Leben Der Anderen
Dir:Florian henckel Von Donnersmarck
Germany/German/137 mins/2006
55. The Man From London
Dir:Bela Tarr
Hungary, germany, france/Hungarian/135″/2006
56. The rind/La cascara
Dir:Carlos ameglio
Uruguay, spain, argentina/spanish/105 mins/2006
57. The unfinished/Ravayathaye Natamam
Dir:Pourya azarbaijani
Iran/Farsi/76 mins/2007
58. Treseta/
Dir:Drazen Zarkovic,Pavao Marinkovic
Bratislavia,crotia/serbo croatian/112 mins/2007
59. UPA- One argentinian film/Une Pelicula argentina
Dir:Tamae Garateguy, Santiago Giralt, Camila Toker
Argentina/Spaniish/100 mins/2007
60. What I Know About Lola/Lo que sé de Lola
Dir:Javier Rebollo
France-Spain/French / Spanish/112’/35mm/Color/2006
61. www.what a wonderful world/www.what a wonderful world
Dir:Faouzi Bensaidi
France, morrocco/French, arabic/90 mins/Scope/DTS digital/Jun-05
62. Chaos
Dir:youssef chahine
Egypt/arabic/122mins/2007
65. Time
Dir:Kim Ki Duc
South Korea/Korean/126 mins/2006
66. Changement of address/Change of address
Dir: Emmanuel Mouret
France/French/85″/2007
Full list of movies here at the Chalachitra site
I have logged the synopsis of competition films here
http://aruninte.blogspot.com/2007/11/12th-iffk-2007-competition-section.html
hey Arun, this is good. Hope to see you at the fest 🙂
excellent packages.like to know more
hey anyone know if the schedule is out ?
I think by Dec1 we get the passes and the pamphlet. Pamphlet will have the schedule!
see you there 🙂
IFFK06 was the worst festival ever happened.Authorities had given passes to people who don’t have any interest in films.
Hey Authorities please take definite steps to put an end to howling inside theaters.
has anyone got the pass yet ? i m supposed to receive it by post ..
I haven’t recieved the pass from theatre authorities as i have applied for it. They had giving pass to those peoples who hate to see this kind of films.
Praveen, I’m not sure man. I haven’t collected mine yet. yeah agree its not always the best crowd 🙂
verry good collection fils in IFFK 2007