15 movies to be screened on concluding day of IFFK

Thiruvananthapuram: On the closing day of IFFk, 15 movies will be screened, including Jafar Panahi’s ‘No Bears, Opium’, ‘Paloma’, ‘Promise Me This’, and ‘The Novelists Film’.
The Turkish Movie ‘The Four Walls’, ‘Amar Colony’ by Siddharth Chauhan that tells the story of three women, the movie adaptation of Satyajith Ray’s short story ‘The Storyteller’ by Ananth Narayan Mahadevan, and Masahiro Kobayashi’s’ ‘Lear on the Shore’ about an 84-year-old man with dementia will all be screened on Friday.Delegates can watch movies without reservations on Friday.
The Kazakhistan movie ‘Zere’, Manuela Martelli's ‘1976,’ Hungarian movie ‘The Game’, ‘The Forger’, ‘Bittersweet Rain’, and ‘The Happiest Man in the World’ will also be screened on Friday. The movies will be screened at Tagore, Kairali, Sree, Nila, and Kalabhavan Theatres. In accordance with the closing ceremony, the movie that wins best movie award will also be screened.
Speaking at the Aravindan Memorial Lecture, which was conducted as part of the festival, Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr said that films should not be taught by certain rules and regulations. He also stated that if he had power, he would have shut down all the film schools.
National Award winning film critic CS Venkiteswaran was the moderator for the lecture. He said scripts speak separate languages than cinema. It is just paper that gets wasted during filming. Cinema is the director's art and one can recognize its director just by seeing a frame.