MALAYALAM FILM FESTIVAL

 

Kathan – Lover of Colours (90 min; 2018; dvd; English subtitles)

Director & Producer: Shareef C.

 

Recipient of the Kerala State Award for Best Film, 2019

 

The film explores the hardscrabble lives of Kerala’s Adivasis through the story of the titular protagonist, a young orphan who lives with his grandmother

 

At 18:30

Body Deep (Udalazham)

(106 min; 2018; dvd; English subtitles)

Director & Screenplay: Unnikrishnan Avala who will introduce the film

 

Gulikan, born and brought up as a boy, has the body and soul of a girl. Dark skinned, fragile, introvert and vulnerable, he struggles to balance his life