Latin American films dominate the Competitive Section, which is the most attractive part of the International Film Festival of Kerala. Among the 14 films, five films from Latin America are vying for the prestigious Rs. One million Suvarna Chakoram award (The Golden Crow Pheasant Award).
Apart from the five Latin American films, the films in the competition section includes two Malayalam films, one film each from Bengali, Hindi, Iranian, Korean, Arabic, Turkish and Egyptian are included.
The films from Latin America include The Last Summer of La Boyita (Julia Solomonoff), Wine (Diego Fried), Optical Illusions (Christian Jimenez), Portraits in a sea of lies (Carlos Gaviria) and A Day in Orange by (Alejandra Szeplaki).
The Last Summer tells the story of a pre-adolescent world and Wine deals with the encounter and disencounter between a man and a woman. The Optical Illusions is a satirical comedy that brings to the surface, pokes fun at our own assumptions of reality, and our own ways of looking at the world. The Portraits in a Sea of Lies gives the experiences of cousins merge with a portrait of Colombia, a country that has been in a civil war for the last sixty years ....More..http://keralz.com/news/entertainment/2010/iffk/iffk6.html
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