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The Metro International Film Festival of Kochi promises interesting fare
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CHINESE TANG A scene from ‘Curse of the Golden Flower’
The Metro International Film Festival of Kochi, 2008, organised by Metro Film Society in association with Corporation of Cochin, C-hed, will be held at Sridhar Theatre, Café @ Sridhar and EMS Memorial Town Hall, Kochi, from April 4-10.
Films will be screened in sections like World Cinema, Indian Cinema, New Malayalam Cinema, Documentary and Short Films. Also included are Retrospectives on Michelangelo Antonioni, Ingmar Bergman and Krzysztof Kieslowski. The festival will pay homage to Bharat Gopy with a screening of ‘Aadaminte Variyellu.’ The highpoints of the festival will be seminars and films with a special focus of Human Rights and Water.
The films included in the Indian Cinema section include ‘Mai Baap,’ (Marathi), ‘Vanaja,’ (Telugu), ‘Gandhi My Father,’ (Hindi), ‘Titash Ekti Galpo,’ (Bengali), and ‘Beru,’ (Kannada).
Three films, ‘Drishtantham,’ ‘Adayalangal,’ and ‘Thaniye’ will be screened in New Malayalam Cinema.
‘Downfall’ (Germany), the American Academy Award winning animated film ‘Ratatouille,’ the Spanish film ‘Habana Blues,’ ‘One Out Of Two’ (Italy), ‘What is a Man Without a Moustache?’ (Croatia), ‘Long Weekend in Pest and Buda,’ (Hungary), ‘Ultranova,’ and ‘The Long Weekend,’ (Belgium), the Chinese film ‘Curse of the Golden Flower,’ ‘The Outcast,’ (Sri Lanka), ‘Nickel and Dime’ and ‘Marie-Jo and her Two Love Affairs,’ ‘The French Men,’ (French), ‘The 11th Hour,’ (US), and ‘Letters from Iwo Jima’ (Japan), directed by Clint Eastwood make up a fine package of World Cinema.
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