IFFK 2018
23rd International Film Festival of Kerala. The Kerala State Chalachitra Academy (Motion Picture Academy of the Kerala State) was set up by the government of Kerala in August 1998. As the first of its kind in the country, the Academy is an effort to counter the gross commodification of the film medium and a rightful recognition of the contribution of cinema to the cultural enlightenment of the society.
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- DirectorTashi GyeltshenStarsTshering EudenDorji GyeltshenSingyeWe all live in one story but different realities. Or perhaps, we all live in one reality but different stories. And in between, there is just a mask.
- DirectorLuis OrtegaStarsLorenzo FerroCecilia RothLuis GneccoThe angelic face of Carlos, a 17-year-old teenager, hides a dark facet of robberies, lies and murders.
- DirectorAhmed Fawzi SalehStarsIbrahim El NaggaryMohamed BerakaaMahmoud Hemida« Set in the confines of an impoverished Cairo neighborhood, a community's everyday life is threatened by the ruthless rhythms of Tanneries, rotary driers crushing animal skin, hazards of poisonous waste water, Tahyea desperately clings to her brother, Saqr, whose only dream is to escape »
- DirectorRouhollah HejaziStarsSareh BayatSaed SoheiliAlireza MirsalariHaleh and Farhad, together with their 5-year-old son, Amir, have been recently resided in a new complex. Amir is lost in the desert, front of the complex, however, his parents find him soon. Later, Amir tells his father that someone has seen his body and this makes Farhad very upset and he's looking for a suspect who has sexually harassed his little boy.
- DirectorMónica LairanaStarsAlejo MangoSandra SandriniA man and a woman, naked in bed together. They attempt to make love, but are no longer capable of finding a shared rhythm. She begins to cry, and he brings her a glass of water. They both remain silent - perhaps everything has already been said. Before entering the bedroom, the camera first explores the other rooms in the house. It seems that life no longer takes place there. The camera lingers, as if sensing what has happened. It observes a separation - or rather the outcome of a separation. It registers gestures and glances here that speak of an intimacy that isn't part of the present any more, such as when the man and the woman, who are no longer young, look at photographs from the start of their relationship. Beautiful moments alternate with comical and sorrowful ones. She brings him vitamin tablets. When clearing out the wardrobe, they look at one another lovingly: When did they each wear this or that piece of clothing and in what situation? The two of them are usually nude. It is a nakedness that is not about exposing anything, perhaps more a habit from days spent together, or a response to the unrelenting heat. The only sound comes from the fan that provides fresh air.
- DirectorVuslat SaraçogluStarsBeyti EnginFeridun KoçSerdar OrçinA print shop worker, Tufan, takes in a neighbor with emphysema and helps his daughter take care of a wounded bird, but tensions develop at his economically struggling business and strains develop because of his house guest with his marriage.
- DirectorTemirbek BirnazarovStarsAkylbek AbdykalykovBayish IsmanovDina JakobAn odd couple of lost souls share an uneasy friendship while riding a motorcycle on a lonely stretch of moonlit highway.
- DirectorMostafa SayariStarsMajid AghaKarimiReza BakhtiarinikNader FallahA family of four persons go to a remote village to bury their dead father there according to his will. But no one of them has heard anything about this village or visited it before.
- DirectorBahman FarmanaraStarsMohamed AhmedBahman FarmanaraFatemah Motamed-AriaTaher Mohebi is a well-known writer who, after witnessing a violent murder, breaks down and spends three years in a mental institution. After release he is told that things are just as they were before, but his relentless hallucinations make him want to return to the institution.
- DirectorBeatriz SeignerStarsMarleyda SotoEnrique DiazMaría Paula Tabares PeñaNuria, 12, Fabio, 9, and their mother arrive on a small island in the middle of the Amazon, bordering Brazil, Colombia and Peru. They fled the Colombian armed conflict, in which their father disappeared. One day, he mysteriously reappears in their new home.
- DirectorZakariyaStarsSoubin ShahirSamuel Abiola RobinsonSavithri SreedharanStory of an African football player and a local football club manager from Malappuram, Kerala.
- DirectorLijo Jose PellisseryStarsKainakary ThankarajChemban Vinod JoseVinayakanSet in Chellanam, Kochi, the story of Ee. Ma. Yau revolves around the death of Vavachan Mesthiri in a coastal village. It showcases the events that unfold between two evenings and looks at death from different perspectives.
- DirectorAnamika HaksarStarsRavindra SahuRaghubir YadavGopalanA testament of time written in Old Delhi, past and present plotted in its lanes. The narrative moves like a homeless migrant, changing space and structure with each unfolding event, living in the twilight between the real and the dream.
- DirectorPraveen MorchhaleStarsShilpi MarwahaNoorjahanZaba BanooWhen a Kashmiri woman attempts to get her seven-years missing husband's death certificate issued, a bureaucratic nightmare threatens her family's future and her own existence.
- DirectorKonarak MukherjeeStarsRajatabha DuttaBiswabasu BiswasNaireet BasakAn interpretation of the mythical tale of Abraham, delving into the dark and macabre world of fanaticism and dogma.
- DirectorDevashish MakhijaStarsManoj BajpayeeSantosh JuvekarIpshita Chakraborty SinghBhonsle is a retired policeman and is living a non-interfering life in a colony dominated by locals, diagnosed with stage 4 brain tumor. When the migrant resident politics take a nasty turn, he chooses to take a stance and deal with it.
- DirectorNandita DasStarsNawazuddin SiddiquiRasika DugalTahir Raj BhasinThe film is a biographical account of writer Saadat Hasan Manto's life and is set in 1940s India.
- DirectorVasanthStarsLizzie AntonyKarthick Krishna C.S.Lakshmi Priyaa ChandramouliTamil anthology film exploring the lives of 3 women across 3 time periods.
- DirectorPriya RamasubbanStarsJigmet Dewa LhamoMorup NamgyalSonam AngchokTo chase her dream of going to school in her remote Himalayan village, a feisty paraplegic girl locks horns with her tradition-bound grandfather.
- DirectorBobby Sarma BaruahStarsMala GoswamiTsering Dorjee KhrimeyRajib KroAn Army deserter grows roots in the Sherdukpan community of Arunachal Pradesh and suddenly disappears only to resurface decades later, and once again vanish behind a curtain of curious questions.
- DirectorRitu SarinTenzing SonamStarsTenzin DolkerJampa Kalsang TamangTashi ChoedonAt the age of eight, Dolkar fled her home with her father to escape Chinese armed forces, and faced an arduous journey across the Himalayas. Now 26, she lives in a Tibetan refugee colony in Delhi, where an unexpected encounter with a man from her past awakens long-suppressed memories, propelling Dolkar on an obsessive search for the truth.
- DirectorRima DasStarsPakija BegamArnali DasManoranjan DasExploring their sexual identities in the face of the patriarchal rules of their Assamese village, a teenager and her two friends are rocked by tragedy.
- DirectorSoubin ShahirStarsAmal ShahGovind V. PaiDulquer SalmaanThe story of Parava revolves around pigeon race, a game, which is prominent in Mattancherry, Kochi, Kerala.
- DirectorJayarajStarsJojo GeorgeSabitha JayaraajBilas Chandrahasan NairA World War I veteran is sent to Kuttanad as a postman to deliver money orders and letters to the families of soldiers. Soon, the happiness that his visits brought to the families turns into sadness with the outbreak of the World War II.
- DirectorUnnikrishnan AavalaManoj K.T.Rajesh KumarStarsP.R. ManiRemya ValsalaAnumol K. ManoharanGulikan and Maathi were married as children, and live amongst a tribe in a deep jungle settlement. Like everyone else, Gulikan must go to town for work, where the rules are brutal.