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The Festival will screen a selection of films by noted filmmakers from the world over. The Andrzej Wajda Retrospective will unspool ‘Ashes and Diamonds,’ ‘Landscape after the Battle,’ ‘Innocent Sorcerers,’ ‘Man of Marble,’ Man of Iron’ and ‘Rough Treatment.’ Among the titans of European cinema in post-World War II period Andrzej Wajda was known for his allegory and symbolism and for crafting his films by drawing from Polish history and chronicling the country’s political and social history.

The Indian Cinema Today segment will screen ‘Taare Zameen Par,’ ‘Gandhi My Father,’ ‘Johny Gaddar,’ ‘Omkaara,’ ‘Gafla,’ ‘Sonam,’ ‘Mithya,’ ‘Bheja Fry,’ ‘Paruthiveeran,’ ‘Jab We Met’ and ‘Mozhi.’

Filca remembers the thespian Bharat Gopi with the epochal film by Adoor Gopalakrishnan, ‘Kodiyettam,’ and the playwright with a social commitment, the late K.T. Mohammed with the screening of the documentary ‘Oru Deepsthabam Pole,’ which gives an intimate glimpse of the man. ‘Mattanur Sankaran Kutty’ by Shanavas Khan and ‘Punarakhyanam’ by Madhu Eravankara are other documentaries at the Festival. ‘Ore Kadal,’ ‘Naalu Pennungal’ and ‘Unni’ figure in the Malayalam Cinema Section.

Istvan Gal’s ‘Falcons,’ Istvan Szabo’s ‘25th Fireman’s Street,’ ‘A Long Week end at Pest’ and ‘Buda,’ Boszormenyi Zsuzsa’s ‘Guarded Secrets’ feature in Country Focus – Hungary, section. The World Cinema Section carries ‘Downfall’ (Germany), ‘Austeria’ (Poland), ‘Letter From Iwo Jima’ (Japan), ‘Adam’ (Iran), ‘Ratatouille’ (Animation), ‘Habana Blues’ (Spain) and the Festival’s closing film ‘Curse of the Golden Flower’ (China).

A notable inclusion at this festival is a Children’s film, ‘Kaliyorukkam.’ The Short films and documentaries which won this year’s Filca award at the campus film festival will be screened during the week long festival.

Delegate passes for the week-long festival are available at the venue on payment of Rs. 150.

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