The third edition of the Female Film Festival organised by the Kerala Sthree Padana Kendram was inaugurated at the Gandhi Park in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday Sep 27,2013
The festival is being held at the University Students Centre from September 27 to 30,2013
The lamp was lighted jointly by theatre artistes Nilambur Ayesha and Vijayakumari, singer P.K. Medini, Koodiyattam artiste Margi Sathi, dubbing artiste Bhagyalekshmi, and Mayor J. Chandrika.
T.N. Seema, MP, who presided over the function, said that festivals such as this provided the much-needed exposure to a different kind of film language to the women of Kerala. “The choice of films available to women in our State has been limited for a pretty long time. But film societies and film festivals have helped them to understand and carry out serious studies and analyses of serious cinema,”
A total of 16 films are being screened in the Indian cinema and World cinema sections.The entry fee for the festival is Rs.50 for students and Rs.200 for others. The film screenings will start at 9 a.m. on all days
The Indian Cinema section include -
In the World Cinema section, the films to be screened are -
The festival is being held at the University Students Centre from September 27 to 30,2013
The lamp was lighted jointly by theatre artistes Nilambur Ayesha and Vijayakumari, singer P.K. Medini, Koodiyattam artiste Margi Sathi, dubbing artiste Bhagyalekshmi, and Mayor J. Chandrika.
T.N. Seema, MP, who presided over the function, said that festivals such as this provided the much-needed exposure to a different kind of film language to the women of Kerala. “The choice of films available to women in our State has been limited for a pretty long time. But film societies and film festivals have helped them to understand and carry out serious studies and analyses of serious cinema,”
A total of 16 films are being screened in the Indian cinema and World cinema sections.The entry fee for the festival is Rs.50 for students and Rs.200 for others. The film screenings will start at 9 a.m. on all days
The Indian Cinema section include -
- Aparna Sen’s ‘Mr. and Mrs. Iyer’ and ‘Paroma,’
- Shyam Benegal’s ‘Manthan’ and ‘Bhumika,’
- Rituparno Ghosh’s ‘Chithrangada’ and ‘Unishe April’ and
- Sujoy Ghosh’s ‘Kahaani.’
In the World Cinema section, the films to be screened are -
- ‘Camille Claudel’ and ‘Persepolis’ from France
- ‘Daughter Father Daughter’ and ‘Blackboards’ from Iran
- ‘Caramel’ from Lebanon
- ‘The Silences of the Palace’ from Tunisia
- ‘Lucia’ from Cuba
- ‘So close to life’ from Sweden and
- ‘Gaslight’ from the U.S.
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