Chief Minister Oommen Chandy will inaugurate the week-long festival, in which celebrated environmental film-maker Mike Pandey will be the chief guest at the function.
His six films would be screened at the festival.
"5 Broken Cameras" (Palestine/Israel/France) by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi would be screened as the opening film, a release from the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy, which is organising the festival, said.