The week-long festival, being held in co-operation with Kerala State Chalachitra Academy, state Culture department and Federation of Film Societies of India would be inaugurated by Adoor Gopalakrishnan.
A retrospective of legendary Russian film-maker Andrei Takovsky would be the highlight of the festival. His films 'Sacrifice', 'Nostalgia', 'Stalker', 'The Mirror', 'Solaris', and 'Ivan's Childhood' would be screened, the organisers said in a release here.
In the country focus section, Hungarian films including 'The Man from London', 'Red Psalm', 'Taxiderma' and 'Mephisto' would be shown.