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Savouring world cinema
Movie buffs in the city have been at their happiest best all this week. The eighth Trivandrum International Film Festival, organised by Chalachitra film society, which began here on August 1, once again brought home for them the best of world cinema.
Apart from the festival's Hungarian, Iranian packages and films from Norway and China, the festival is also paying tribute to 75 years of Malayalam cinema. Viewers have thus also been given an opportunity to see once again, some of those `milestone' movies.
`Hold My Heart', the Norwegian film directed by Trygve Alister Diesen, was one of the best-loved of the movies screened so far.
The other highlights of the festival so far has been the musical by Rob Marshal, `Chicago', which won six Oscars, Shaji N. Karun's latest movie, `Nishad', `The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers', directed by Peter Jackson, `Such a Long Journey', by the Canadian director, Sturla Gunnarson, based on the novel of the same name by the Indian author, Rohinton Mistry, Spielberg's `Catch Me If You Can' and Ron Howard's `A Beautiful Mind'.
On Wednesday, the festival will screen `Nizhal', the debut film by Tony Sukumar, which had been selected to the Indian Panorama and the Assamese film, `Konika Ramadhenu', by Jhanu Barua, which won the award for the best film in that language. In the package of Malayalam films, Wednesday's movies are Jayaraj's `Kaliyaattom', Balachandra Menon's `Samantharangal' and Shaji N. Karun's `Vanaprastham'.
By Maya C
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