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Cuban flavour for festival today

— Photo: S. Gopakumar

On-screen heroines: Veteran actor Sharmila Tagore at an exhibition on ‘Women in Malayalam Cinema’ organised as part of the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) has emerged as one of the significant stops in the festival circuit that features films reflecting the woes, anxieties, struggles and successes of marginalised peoples across the globe.

The 14th edition of the annual festival that began here on Friday stands out for saluting Cuba in the golden-jubilee year of the revolution that freed the nation from despotism, a chivalrous fight against brutal repression.

A tale of Cuban resistance against Fulgencio Batista’s dictatorial regime in the mid-1950s will be screened on Sunday. The film City in Red, directed by Rebecca Chavez, sheds light on an underground movement organised in Santiago de Cuba against the despotism. Viva Cuba, directed by Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti, is another Cuban film scheduled for Sunday.

The film portrays how the class difference between two women leaves a shadow on the camaraderie between their children.

The Bengali film Aamaar Bhuvan, written and directed by one of the masters of modern Indian cinema, Mrinal Sen, will be screened in the retrospective section.

The film Road to Confluence, featured in the competition section, highlights the dilemma of an average Indian who is destined to bear the ravages of communal carnage and terrorism.

Directed by Amit Rai, the film narrates the predicament of a young motor mechanic.

In a poignant scene, the mechanic has to give up repairing a car which had carried the ashes of Mahatma Gandhi as people in the locality calls for a protest against the arrest of an innocent youth accused in a blast.

Two best films of the French new wave cinema, Alphavile, written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, and Bay of Angels, made by Jacques Demy, will be screened on Sunday.

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