Filmmaker Saeed Akhter Mirza inaugurates the Regional International Film Festival in Kerala in Kozhikod 8 August. Mayor Been Philip, Thotathil Ravendran, MLA, Kerala State Chalachitra Academy Chairman of Premkumar, curator 29. Iffk Golda Sellam and others. | Photo Credit: K. Ragesh
Saeed Akhtar Mirza, chairman of the KR Narayanan Institute of Visual Sciences and Arts, hardly descended in The Keral Story, which won the National Film Awards for the best direction and cinematography for 2025.
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He appreciated the International Film Festival Keral (IFFK) for bringing a common sense, rationality and poetry, noting that Kerala internalized cinema. “It is the only state in the country that organized a film festival with such a deep public participation for 30 years,” he said, noting that IFFK had his beginning in Kozhikode in 1994.
He appreciated the role played by film companies in cinematography care and mentioned Doyens such as Chelavoor Venu, which popularized quality cinema. He also invited filmmakers Adoor GoPalakrishhnan back to his institute, where he resigned as chairman a few years ago.
The director of the festival and Chairman of the Chalachitra State Chalachitra Academy Premkumar supported Adoor’s recent statement that filmmakers, regardless of gender or community background, need proper cinema training. He also said that “freedom of expression” was not the freedom of spreading lies and that every artist had responsibility to society.
Mayor Bean Philip chaired the event. The honorary guest was Mla Thotathil Ravendran. The actors Sudhesh and Kukka Parameshwan were present, except for the well -known academy. Menakshi Jayan, who wrapped the title of the best actress at the International Film Festival in Shanghai, and Gopikrishhnan Varma, who played on this occasion a pvotný role in Hinda Sitare Zameni.
The seed of the sacred figure of Iranian filmmaker Mohammed Rasoolof was an inauguration film of a four -day festival. At the Cannes Film Festival, he packed the jury’s special recognition. The film is the story of the mother and two daughters against the background of the mandatory hijab rule in Iran. The director now lives in exile in Germany after the Islamic Iranian sentenced him to eight years of imprisonment and flogging as a punishment for filming this film.
Riffk contains 58 films in nine different categories from different parts of the world. The second day of the festival is mixed up to 15 films in three theaters in the city.
Published – August 8, 2025 20:29
