Thiruvananthapuram: The 16th edition of the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK), to be held here from December 9-16, will screen more than 200 films in various sections including competition, world cinema, Malayalam cinema
and Indian cinema.
A special section on cinema on football, 'Kicking and Screening' is also part of this year's IFFK. 'Two Half-Times in Hell,' a Hungarian film that narrates the story of a football match played between the prisoners of war and the Germans marking Hitler's birthday.
Six other films will be screened in addition to 'Two Half-Times in Hell'. 'The Two Escobars,' a Colombian movie by Jeff Zimbalist and Michael Zimbalist, 'Game of Their Lives' by American filmmaker David Anspaugh, 'Garuda Di Dadaku,' an Indonesian movie by Ifa Isfansyah, 'Offside,' an Argentinian-Spanish co-production by David Marcques, 'Soka Africa,' Suridh Hassan's South African documentary and 'Will,' an English movie directed by Ellen Perry are part of this section.
The first edition of IFFK was held in Kozhikode in 1996. The festival, then organised by Kerala State Film Development Corporation, was taken over by Kerala State Chalachitra Academy from 1998.
Meanwhile, controversial Malayalam film 'Aadimadhyantham,' (Where the End Begins and Beginning Ends) directed by debutant Sherry, has been omitted from the competition section. Academy chairman and IFFK Director Priyadarashan said yesterday that the film was omitted as it was submitted in an 'incomplete format'.
The film's prospects to be included in the festival had been in doubt after Minister for Cinema, K B Ganesh Kumar, had objected to it following complaints from filmmakers.
Ganesh Kumar had said that 'Adimadhyantham' was submitted before the Jury in an incomplete format and hence was not likely to be in the competition section. A lot of complaints had been received on the matter, he said.
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