INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF KERALA- PARVIZ WINS SUVARNA CHAKORAM
Iranian
film Parviz,
directed by Majid Barzegar, won the Suvarna Chakoram (Golden Crow Pheasant)
award at the 18th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) that concluded on
Friday15th December,2013.film tells the story of a 50-year-old man who has
lived his entire life with his father and never held a job and finds himself
kicked out of his home one fine day.Kamaleswar Mukherjee won the Rajatha
Chakoram (Silver Crow Pheasant) award for the best director for his film Meghe Dhaka Tara, based on the life of
Bengali auteur Ritwik Ghatak.It also won the Network for Promotion of Asian
Cinema (NETPAC) award for the best Asian film in the competition category.
The awards
were given away by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy at the valedictory ceremony
held at the Nishagandhi Auditorium, Kanakakunnu,.Korean director Kim ki-Duk was
the chief guest at the function.Argentinean Ivan Vescovo bagged the Rajatha
Chakoram for the best debutant director for Errata. Siddharth
Siva’s Malayalam film 101
Chodyangal won the
audience poll award for the best film by beating Kim Mordaunt’s Australian film Rocket that led
the poll till the last leg.
Errata also
won the best competition movie award instituted by the International Federation
of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) while the FIPRESCI award for the best Malayalam
movie went to Kanyaka
Talkiesdirected by K.R. Manoj.The NETPAC award for the best Malayalam
film went to C.R.No:
89 directed
by P.P. Sudevan.Actor Madhu was honoured at the function. Minister for Culture
K.C. Joseph presided over the function.
Prof. John Kurakar
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