The movie competition that opened the doorways of world cinema to Kottayam wound up on Tuesday night at Anaswara theatre. A complete of 39 movies had been screened on the competition, which started on February 24.

Kottayam MLA Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan inaugurated the valedictory perform. The concluding movie on the mela was Jafar Panahi’s ‘No Bears’. Panahi was jailed in 2010 after Iran put a ban on the liberty of expression. Panahi who confronted a ban on movie manufacturing in addition to for voicing his opinion used the help of a hidden digital camera and different issues to shoot ‘No bears’. The movie was screened at Anaswara Theatre at 6 pm. Jafar Panahi has acted within the movie which gained the most effective movie award on the 2022 Chicago movie competition and a particular jury award on the Venice movie competition.

‘For movies to develop you want criticism’

Critic and director Aju Ok Narayanan opined that criticism is significant for the expansion of cinema. Art turns into full solely when there’s artwork criticism. The identical goes for the cinema. He was talking on the competition’s open discussion board on the subject known as ‘Are the social media critiques a risk to the cinema?

Vlogger and movie critic RJ Unni reasoned that movie individuals themselves are supporting the social media teams which can be detrimental to the expansion of cinema. He felt they’re digging their very own grave. Director Vinod Sukumaran questioned the necessity to criticise cinema as he felt cinema was a director’s unbiased imaginative and prescient. Film critic Arathi Sebastian felt finally the viewers decides whether or not a movie is nice or unhealthy, it doesn’t matter what the movie critic says.