{"id":15164,"date":"2013-12-06T11:44:12","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T06:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=15164"},"modified":"2013-12-06T11:57:55","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T06:27:55","slug":"iffk-to-begins-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/iffk-to-begins-today\/","title":{"rendered":"IFFK begins Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong>#IFFK2013:<\/strong> The 18<sup>th<\/sup> International Film Festival of Kerala will begin in the city from today. The 7-day long festival will feature around 211 films from more than 60 countries.\u00a0 The festival will be inaugurated by the Honourable Chief Minister, Shri Oommen Chandy. Shabana Azmi will be the chief guest for the function with other guests like Manju Warrier taking part in it. Around 9000 delegate passes have been issued this year.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/iffk-going-hi-tech-this-year\/\" target=\"_blank\">IFFK going hi-tech this year\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/arturo-ripstein-at-iffk-jury\/\" target=\"_blank\">IFFK Jury to be lead by Mexican filmmaker Arturo Ripstein<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-15168\" alt=\"iffk2013\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2013\/12\/iffk2013.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/12\/iffk2013.jpg 1159w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/12\/iffk2013-768x465.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The competition section will have 14 films, in which two Malayalam films \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/101_Chodyangal\" target=\"_blank\">101 Chodyangal<\/a>\u2019 by Sidharth Siva and \u2018Kaliyachan\u2019 by Farook Abdul Rahiman has been included. The festival is said to have around 16 sections. \u2018Original Glory: 100 Years of Indian Cinema\u2019 section will be a tribute to the Indian Cinema which is celebrating its 100<sup>th<\/sup> year. The Homage section will have films of Sukumari, V Dakshinamoorthy, Rituparno Ghosh etc. Retrospective section includes the films of acclaimed French director Jean Renoir.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-15170\" alt=\"iffk2013 delegate\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2013\/12\/iffk2013-delegate.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/12\/iffk2013-delegate.jpg 1183w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/12\/iffk2013-delegate-768x496.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The famous Spanish filmmaker and photographer Carlos Saura will be awarded with the Lifetime Achievement Award\u00a0at the opening ceremony which will be held today evening. The greatest attraction of the event will be the South Korean director Kim Ki Duk, whose \u2018Moebius\u2019 will be screened at the festival. The screenings will take place at 12 theatres in the city. \u2018<a title=\"\u2018Ana Arabia\u2019, the 85-minute long single shot film to open IFFK 2013\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/ana-arabia-iffk-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ana Arabia<\/a>\u2019 will be the opening movie of the festival. Meanwhile, the festival office was inaugurated on wednesday at Kairali Theatre complex. The city will be really soaring with film festival fever in the coming week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-15169\" alt=\"2013iffk\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2013\/12\/2013iffk.jpg\" width=\"593\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/12\/2013iffk.jpg 1058w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/12\/2013iffk-160x95.jpg 160w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/12\/2013iffk-768x455.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#IFFK2013: The 18th International Film Festival of Kerala will begin in the city from today. The 7-day long festival will feature around 211 films from more than 60 countries.\u00a0 The festival will be inaugurated by the Honourable Chief Minister, Shri Oommen Chandy. Shabana Azmi will be the chief guest for the function with other guests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3753,"featured_media":14978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[401],"class_list":["post-15164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-iffk-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3753"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}