Summary:
When the curtain goes up for the week-long 17th FILCA International Festival in Thiruvananthapuram on November 24, the 43 films that will be screened include an inviting spread from across the globe. The highlight of this year’s selection is the package for Indian Cinema, which has been selected by Premendra Mazumdar, film critic, curator and film society activist. The films are in Bangla, Rajbanshi (a dialect with a rapidly declining number of speakers), Assamese, Manipuri and Kannada. Each film, Bokul, Sonar Baran Pakhi, Alifa, and Lady of the Lake (Loktak Lairambee) dwells on human dilemmas that are universal and contemporary too. The fifth film Rowdy Women of Kiragooru by Kannada filmmaker Suman Kittur takes on caste-gender equations as it plays out in the little hamlet..