IFFK 2025: Four out of 19 films awaiting Centre’s clearance granted permission for screening

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Four retired of 19 movies awaiting Central authorities support for screening astatine the 30th variation of the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) being held successful Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, person been granted authoritative censor exemption, sources said connected Tuesday (December 16, 2025).

The movies granted support for screening are Beef, Eagles of The Republic, Heart of The Wolf and Once Upon A Time In Gaza, the sources said.

Beef follows Lati, a young pistillate from the outskirts of Barcelona, who turns to freestyle rap to face grief, prejudice, and sex barriers aft her father's death, sources said.

The remaining 15 films awaiting clearance see Sergei Eisenstein's 100-year-old classical Battleship Potemkin and respective films related to the Palestine conflict.

Sources said Battleship Potemkin is 1 of cinema's astir influential works, dramatising the 1905 mutiny aboard the battleship Potemkin, wherever sailors rebelled against brutal officers and proviso of maggot-infested food, turning their conflict into a awesome of corporate resistance.

Denial of clearance to Sergei Eisenstein's movie was termed arsenic "laughable" by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor successful a station connected X.

It is astir unfortunate that an unseemly contention has arisen implicit the cardinal government's denial of clearance to 19 films which were scheduled to beryllium screened astatine the International Film Festival of Kerala successful Thiruvananthapuram.

The archetypal database was overmuch longer, but several…

— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) December 16, 2025

The 30th variation of IFFK is being held from December 12 to 19.

Published - December 16, 2025 01:03 p.m. IST

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