Thiruvananthapuram: Spanish film 'The Milk of Sorrow' by Claudia Llosa portraying the story of a woman told to be suffering from melancholy transmitted through her mother's breast milk, attracted the audience on the fifth day of the 16th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) on Tuesday.
She lives with the consequences of the violence in Peru during the 1980's when lots of women including her mother were raped during the bloody civil conflict. The director expertly crafts a film that functions as a tale both of individual trauma and of the wider collective memories and ordeals of the nation.
'Free Hands', a French film by Brigette Si screened in the world cinema category is the story of a director who makes films in prison and falls in love with a prisoner who attends her film workshop. As the film develops, the lovers are abandoned to fate, imprisoned by their love.
'Future Lasts Forever' a Turkish film by Ozcan Alper, screened here in the competition section today, is the story of a musicologist in Istanbul who sets off to the south east of the country to gather and record Anatolian elegies.
Sri Lankan film 'August Drizzle' by Aruna Jayawardhana is a journey to various cultural aspects of the country. It portrays a small Sri Lankan village where the main livelihood of people is related to death.
The heroine, who is a mortician, is involved in undeclared war with other morticians of the village and moves ahead with her plans to build a state of art crematorium. At the end, we see the reaction when mortality strikes closer home.
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