Under the ‘Homage’ category, movies of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda, Malayalam director Rajesh Pillai and actor Kalabhavan Mani and Kalpana would be screened, they said. By: PTI | Thiruvananthapuram |

Updated: December 3, 2016 1:20 pm

Navid Mahmoudi-directed Afghan movie Parting, which revolves around the hardships faced by refugees, will mark the beginning of the 21st edition of International Film Festival of Kerala here on December 9. As many as 185 films from 62 countries would be screened under various categories in the festival, scheduled to conclude on December 16, academy sources added. Navid Mahmoudi-directed Afghan movie Parting, which revolves around the hardships faced by refugees, will mark the beginning of the 21st edition of International Film Festival of Kerala here on December 9. An Afghan-Iran co-production, the movie was Afghanistan’s entry for the Best Foreign Language Film for the 89th Academy Awards, Kerala State Chalachitra Academy, organiser of the event, said. A total of six films on the lives of celebrated artists including legendary painter Vincent van Gogh is included in the ‘Life of Artists’ section. The ‘Retrospective’ section will have five films including Opol and Panitheeratha Veedu by veteran filmmaker K S Sethumadhavan. The country in focus of the week-long gala this year is Kazakhstan and five films– ‘Daughter-in-law’, ‘Little Brother’, ‘Qazaq Eli’, ‘Student’ and ‘The Old Man’ from there
would be screened in this category, they said.