Adoor-curated film fest, 2 art symposia to cap biennale

: Renowned director Adoor Gopalakrishnan will curate a five-day film festival in the final week of the Kochi Muziris Biennale here from March 9 with Satyajit Ray's classic 'Pather Panchali' being the inaugural film.
The festival will showcase 10 world class films which is being organised in association with the Metro Film Society at the Children's Theatre near Children's Park here from March 9.
There will be two films shown every evening - at 3 PM and 6 PM, the Kochi Biennale Foundation (KBF) said today.
'Bioscope', a 2008 Malayalam film directed by K M Madhusudhanan, will also be shown midway the festival, a KBF spokesperson said.

Satyajit Ray's 1955 Bengali classic 'Pather Panchali' will be the inaugural film and the only Indian one at the fest. This will be followed by Frederico Fellini's Italian neorealist film 'La Strada' (1954).
Other movies will be 'Four hundred blows' (Francois Truffaut) and 'Andrey Rublyov' (Andrey Tarkovsky) on Mar 10, 'Tokyo Story' (Yasujiro Ozu) and 'Rashomon' (Akira Kurosawa) on Mar 11, 'The boy' (Nagisa Oshima) and 'Pick-pocket' (Robert Bresson) on Mar 12 and 'The Puppet Master' (Hou Hsiao-Hsien) and 'The Round-up' (Miklos Jansco) on the final evening.

Tomorrow, a leading international non-profit organisation based in the Netherlands is holding a day-long symposium to create awareness about the utility of local heritage.

The Centre for International Heritage Activities headquartered at Leiden in South Holland, will host 'What is the Value of Your Heritage?' with focus on mutual heritage as tool for economic development.
On Mar 12, KBF will, in collaboration with BMW, organise a seminar on 'Urbanism' that seeks to showcase and debate new Indian and International aesthetics and art experiences to enable a dialogue among artists,curators and public.