International Film Festival of Kerala

Bela Tarr the person comes across as a starkly different being from the image conveyed by his deeply contemplative and philosophical works. Here is a straight-talking auteur who uses his words as quick stabs or unkind cuts, the kind of…

Express News Service Several Malayalam filmmakers extended support to students of KR Narayanan National Film Institute of Visual Science and Arts, Kottayam, who have been protesting against the alleged caste…

Unjust laws and practices imposed by repressive fascist regimes sometimes survive beyond their time, until pushback from the victims and the larger society bring in incremental changes. Two films from two different countries being screened…

Nandita Das | Photo Credit: S.R. Praveen Nandita Das calls herself a “hesitant” actor and filmmaker. Her filmography certainly attests to that claim. In a career spanning 26 years, she has made only three films and acted in 40. There were…

Kapil Sharma and Shahana Goswami in a scene from Zwigato. Being your own boss and working flexible timings is perhaps the biggest selling point of the app-based gig economy. It also remains its biggest myth, because those who have worked…

By Express News Service The highly-anticipated Mammootty-Lijo Jose Pellissery film Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam had its world premiere on Monday at the ongoing 27th IFFK. The film has been getting extraordinary…

Mammootty in a still from Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam. Chaos is what one associates with filmmaker Lijo Jose Pellisserry, whether talking about the visual style or sound design or the narrative. In Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam, screened in the…

A filmmaker appearing as himself for the entirety of a film might be forgiven the first time. The second time around, he is sure to attract some amount of ridicule for his vanity. But then, Jafar Panahi is not just any other filmmaker. For…

Jonny Best | Photo Credit: S.R.Praveen Jonny Best sits at a corner of the screen, unobtrusively, almost like a member of the audience. Only that, he has a key role to play in guiding the audience’s experience of this silent film, as the…

Divya Prabha and Kunchacko Boban in Ariyippu. Something about the appearance and the mood of industrial towns generate a sense of disorientation. In Mahesh Narayanan’s Ariyippu (Declaration), screened in the International Competition…