Rakesh Sharma, jury chairperson, Non-Fiction, presenting the Award for Best Long Documentary at the 16th IDSFFK to Anand Patwardhan for The World is Family. Anand […]
Tag: International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala
IDSFFK 2024 | Lalit Vachani’s moving portrait of a prisoner caught in Kafkaesque situation
A good number of the film buffs who walked into Kairali Theatre on Monday morning to catch a long documentary listed as part of the […]
IDSFFK 2024 | Colours of Kollywood, a student project, looks critically at colourism in the Tamil film industry
Young eyes are able to see what is obvious, but which at the same time remains hidden and unacknowledged in plain sight. Colours of Kollywood […]
IDSFFK 2024 | Flickering Lights chronicles a remote village’s long wait for electricity
A still from Flickering Lights. A good part of Flickering Lights, a documentary directed by Anirban Dutta and Anupama Srinavasan, takes place at night. Some […]
IDSFFK 2024 | Farming the Revolution becomes a powerful document of a historic protest
A protest movement, especially one as big as the historic farmers’ protest that began in 2020, might not reveal all it strands when looked at […]
IDSFFK 2024 | How students of a Spanish film school intelligently defied Franco’s dictatorial regime
Cinema, or any other art form for that matter, does not easily lend itself to become tools of oppression. Despite the existence of films filled […]
16th edition of IDSFFK kicks off in Thiruvananthapuram
Minister for Local Self-Governments M.B. Rajesh inaugurates the 16th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday. | Photo Credit: By Arrangement […]
IDSFFK 2024 | Wildlife filmmaking pioneers Bedi Brothers see their films as messages of conservation
Wildlife filmmakers Bedi Brothers (Naresh Bedi and Rajesh Bedi). | Photo Credit: S.R. Praveen Most people would run away from the prospect of spending harsh […]
IDSFFK: spotlight on stories of Palestinian struggle
A still from Julien Menanteau and Nour Ben Salem’s Palestine Island. The long years of struggle of the Palestinians under the imperial occupying forces of […]
IDSFFK 2024: 31 animation films to be screened in three categories
A still from ‘Mortelli – A Hopeless Case’ which is set to be screened at IDSFFK 2024. A package of 31 animation films spread over […]
