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Follow us:WhatsappFacebookTwitterTelegram.cls-1{fill:#4d4d4d;}.cls-2{fill:#fff;}Google NewsIt was a state of chaos, day one at the Trivandrum International Film Fest. Those who walked into the University Students Centre last noon were shepherded here and there by what did not look like a festival crowd - they were men and women gathered for the employees union conference. Two films which were to be screened at the University Union Centre Hall 1, situated downstairs, were cancelled, due to the conference.Unlike earlier years when the movies were screened at the Kalabhavan theatre, films are now screened in a small hall at the Students Centre owing to all the renovation work. Plastic chairs are neatly arranged, green curtains help the room remain dark, the room is pleasantly cold and the movie is being screened at a projector screen. The seating capacity is hardly 200 and yet the hall looked sadly vacant.The 17th TIFF witnessed a cold beginning, but the black and white pull out pamphlet with the list of movies to be screened, sure lit a smile amidst this disappointment. With seven Spanish and Chinese films each, four French films and several picks from the World cinema, the screening list compensates for all the minor pitfalls.Leaning on the University wall, staring on to a TIFF hoarding, Arun S lit a cigarette and blew smoke rings up the air. He is waiting to watch Pupi Avati’s ‘A second childhood’. “The venue doesn’t really matter as long as there is a seat, screen and speakers. Look at the films on offer,” he says. With blue ink, he has circled all the movies that he plans to watch in this week long fest.The fest was inaugurated by Shaji N Karun, C Suveeran and Mr Zhang Yan, the counselor, cultural embassy of China.You may have several things to do enqueued on your itinerary, friends and relatives to visit and household affairs to cater to but if you feel like watching a movie this weekend. These are some you wouldn’t want to miss.A junkman, Shabtai is haunted by a recurring dream where he encounters a red haired woman. Until the day he spots the same face in a magazine leaflet, Shabtai was a peaceful man. He then sets out on a search for her. ‘Out of the Blue’ will be screened at Saturday, 9.15 am.‘The Housemaid’, the name hints it all. This South Korean film centers around a man’s affair with his chirpy young housemaid and the consequences it leads to. For those of you who are looking for something more melancholic, Poetry by Chang Dong Lee is the movie you are looking for, it is about an elderly woman in the beginning stages of Alzheimer’s and how she seeks solace in poetry classes. Some of the other movies include ‘When We Leave’ (Feo Aladag), ‘The Other Side of the Bed’ (Emilio Martinez), ‘Byari’ (Suveeran). first published:January 01, 1970, 05:30 ISTlast updated:January 01, 1970, 05:30 IST
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It was a state of chaos, day one at the Trivandrum International Film Fest. Those who walked into the University Students Centre last noon were shepherded here and there by what did not look like a festival crowd - they were men and women gathered for the employees union conference. Two films which were to be screened at the University Union Centre Hall 1, situated downstairs, were cancelled, due to the conference.

Unlike earlier years when the movies were screened at the Kalabhavan theatre, films are now screened in a small hall at the Students Centre owing to all the renovation work. Plastic chairs are neatly arranged, green curtains help the room remain dark, the room is pleasantly cold and the movie is being screened at a projector screen. The seating capacity is hardly 200 and yet the hall looked sadly vacant.

The 17th TIFF witnessed a cold beginning, but the black and white pull out pamphlet with the list of movies to be screened, sure lit a smile amidst this disappointment. With seven Spanish and Chinese films each, four French films and several picks from the World cinema, the screening list compensates for all the minor pitfalls.

Leaning on the University wall, staring on to a TIFF hoarding, Arun S lit a cigarette and blew smoke rings up the air. He is waiting to watch Pupi Avati’s ‘A second childhood’. “The venue doesn’t really matter as long as there is a seat, screen and speakers. Look at the films on offer,” he says. With blue ink, he has circled all the movies that he plans to watch in this week long fest.

The fest was inaugurated by Shaji N Karun, C Suveeran and Mr Zhang Yan, the counselor, cultural embassy of China.

You may have several things to do enqueued on your itinerary, friends and relatives to visit and household affairs to cater to but if you feel like watching a movie this weekend. These are some you wouldn’t want to miss.

A junkman, Shabtai is haunted by a recurring dream where he encounters a red haired woman. Until the day he spots the same face in a magazine leaflet, Shabtai was a peaceful man. He then sets out on a search for her. ‘Out of the Blue’ will be screened at Saturday, 9.15 am.

‘The Housemaid’, the name hints it all. This South Korean film centers around a man’s affair with his chirpy young housemaid and the consequences it leads to. For those of you who are looking for something more melancholic, Poetry by Chang Dong Lee is the movie you are looking for, it is about an elderly woman in the beginning stages of Alzheimer’s and how she seeks solace in poetry classes. Some of the other movies include ‘When We Leave’ (Feo Aladag), ‘The Other Side of the Bed’ (Emilio Martinez), ‘Byari’ (Suveeran).