IFFK 2009 International Film Festival of Kerala

IFFK 2009
14th INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF KERALA


IFFK - 2009
IFFK - International Film Festival of Kerala
The International Film Festival of Kerala is an yearly event organised by the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy on behalf of the Department of Cultural Affairs, Government of Kerala. The festival is recognized by the FIAPF thus making it part of a prestigious circle of specialized festivals. The 14th edition of IFFK will be held at Thiruvananthapuram (formerly known as Trivandrum), the capital city of Kerala in the South of India from 11th - 18th December 2009. IFFK boasts of an exclusive and extremely popular competition section restricted to films produced or co-produced in ASIA, AFRICA & LATIN AMERICA within the last year of the festival cycle. With a cine literate audience which is the pride of IFFK, the festival is now into its 14th year has a formidable reputation of quality and participation
About 14th IFFK
Kerala boasts one of the most cine-literate and discerning audiences in the world.Cinema and politics are two abiding passions of the people of Kerala. Bizarre experiments in the medium, with few takers elsewhere, find vociferous votaries here. To satisfy their quest for the best and the latest in the medium and to counter the effects of crass commercialisation, the Department of Cultural Affairs of the Government of Kerala, (incidentally the first state in India to take this initiative) created in August 1998, an autonomous institution called the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy. The Kerala State Chalachitra Academy (Motion Picture Academy of the Kerala State) the only Academy for Motion Pictures in India works for the promotion of Cinema as a cultural expression. As part of its efforts to spread meaningful cinema literacy the IFFK was launched 14 years ago. From a very humble start in a single theatre at Kozhikode the festival has grown into an important International Event with enthusiastic participation by both the Cine Professional and he Cinema Buff. Today close to 200 films are screened at 8 Theatres across the city. For one week in December Trivandrum comes alive to the most intense viewing experiences as well an influx of cinema lovers from all over the world. In December at Trivandrum the world knows that Cinema is alive and loved by all alike.