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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