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Film festival to end today

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The 13th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) will conclude on Friday with the award ceremony to be held at Nishagandhi open air auditorium at 6 p.m.

Cultural Affairs Minister M.A. Baby, Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Vijayakumar and Food and Civil Supplies Minster C. Divakaran will be present at the closing ceremony which will commence with a Sufi concert by Zila Khan.

Mr. Baby will give away the film and media awards at the function.

Following the award ceremony, the film which bags the Golden Crow Pheasant Award will be screened at the auditorium.

The 13th IFFK, which began a week ago amidst the staging of protest by Aikya Vedi workers, is also set to end on a note of protest. While the earlier protest was for the non-inclusion of the film ‘Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar,’ this time two Malayalam filmmakers voiced their dissent over the lackadaisical attitude of festival officials. Film-makers Biju and Ashok R. Nath had obtained entry for their films ‘Raman’ and ‘Meezhikal Sakshi’ respectively through High Court intervention.

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