Saturday Aug 4 6:25 PM
An International film festival starts today at Thiruvananthapuram. This one week festival will feature some of the best films of world cinema.
An organization called Chalachitra is conducting this festival every year. Unlike Tamilnadu, this is not ignored by the Govt., The Kerala govt's cultural dept extends all possible help for this festival.
Iranian Cultural Centre director Shakib is the guest of honour. Malayalam director Adoor Gopalakrishnan and many other prominent film personalities will participate. Films from 12 countries including Iran, Cuba and Argentina will be screened at the festival.
Asian cinema will be screened in the evenings. A Tamil film 'Pokkiri' is to be screened on one of the evenings!
The Malayalam film 'Notebook' also will be screened at the festival.
