THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Seven films from Lithuania and Myanmar will be
showcased in the ‘Country Focus’ section of 20th International Film
Festival of Kerala (IFFK) that will commence on December 4. The
Lithuanian films will portray the Baltic nation’s troubled history as a
satellite state in the USSR and its present reality. Two Cold War era
movies, the 1966-made Jausmai (Feelings) and Grazuole (The Beauty) made
in 1969, are listed as sourced from ‘Soviet Union-Lithuania’.
The
other films are Kolekcioniere (The Collectress, 2008), Ekskursante (The
Excursionist, 2013) and Losejas (The Gambler, 2015). Films from
Myanmar, which also has a history of authoritarian rule, typically steer
clear of political commentary with light-veined family entertainers.
The two movies Red Cotton Silk Flower (2012) and Successor of Merits
(2015) represent film industry in the present Myanmar. Feelings, a
collaborative effort by directors Alimantas Grikiavicius and Algirdas
Dausa, at its core is a family drama set against the bleak backdrop of
World War II. The Beauty is the story of a sensitive yet impish child
who is elected beauty queen by her playmates, and becomes convinced of
her good looks. (Courtesy of The New Indian Express)
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