Forty-six films from 24 countries will be screened at the 13th Trivandrum International Film Festival to be held from August 1 to 7 at Kala Bhavan and Tagore Theatre, Thiruvananthapuram, under the auspices of the Chalachitra Film Society (CFS), said G. Rajamohan, president of CFS, during a press conference on Wednesday.
The Retrospective section will feature eight films directed by renowned Israeli filmmaker Dan Wolman, who will be the chief guest of the festival. They include Foreign Sister, Baby Love, The Distance, Floch, My Michael, Ben’s Biography and Spoken with Love. His film Tied Hands has been selected for the inaugural show.
The week-long event will feature films like KATYN (Andrzej Wadja, Poland), Relatives (Istvan Szabo, Hungary), Departed (Martin Scorsese, USA), Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg, Canada-UK), Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood, USA), Naalu Pennungal (Adoor Gopalakrishnan, India ), Death of a President (Gabriel Range, USA), The Happening (Manoj N. Shyamalan, USA), Waiter (Alex von Warmerdam, Netherlands), Wet Dreams (Poran Derekhshandeh, Iran), Sakaman Maluwa (Sumitra Peries, Sri Lanka), Mirror Image (Prasanna Vithanage, Sri Lanka), Blood Diamond (Edward Zwick, Germany), Tsotsi (Gavin Hood, South Africa), Kudha Keliye (Shoib Mansoor, Pakistan), The Kingdom (Peter Berg, Germany-USA) and On the Other Side of the Bridge (Hu Mei, Austria).
Six popular Indian films -- Jodha Akbar, Bhima, Aamir, Note Book, Chocolate and Jab We Meet -- will be screened. A separate package of five films is to be screened to celebrate the 60th year of Sri Lankan cinema. There will be five screenings a day starting at 8.45 a.m.
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