Kochi-based Chavara Cultural Centre is organizing a journalism film festival featuring four films Flugten, The Killing Fields, Kekexili Mountain Patrol and Crónicas .

Venue : The Chavara Cultural Centre

Date : 24th October 2009 , Saturday

Time : 10 a.m.

Flugten,  Plot : Danish journalist Rikke Lyngvig is taken hostage in Afghanistan by a terror group that threatens to kill her if Denmark does not withdraw their troops from the country. However with help from the young Afghan Nazir, Rikke successfully flees and saves her life. She returns to a nation in chaos and is rapidly declared the Danish Jessica Lynch and from there her career is launched into the spotlight. In the meantime Nazir flees from Afghanistan and further up through Europe and ends up in Denmark. When Rikke meets Nazir she is torn. Is she willing to help the man that saved her life, even though he held her captive and threatened to kill her? Is she willing to jeopardize her new-found career by accommodating an applicant for asylum who is wanted by the police? Everything is turned upside down for Rikke and Nazir and their tumultuous encounter turns into an ill-fated confrontation with their own demons as well as a nation characterized by the hunger of sensations and a superficial political populism. -NimbusFilm

Oscar winning film The Killing Fields by Roland Joffe is based on the true story of New York Times reporter Schanberg and his Cambodian assistant Dith Pran, who is imprisoned by Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge.

Crónicas (2004) has Miami Latino TV ‘Hour of Truth’ star reporter Manolo Bonilla’s attempt to get an exclusive interview of Vinicio Cepeda, who was jailed by mistake, but promised to reveal what he heard from a mysterious serial rapist killer.

Kekexili Mountain Patrol, Plot  :Lu Chuan’s account of pauperized characters involved in a plexus of emotional transference and punishments of violent crime interpretively reenacted from a true story transpired in bucolic Tibet is an engagingly foreboding and unsettling melodrama of latter day isolationism. The Tibetan Mountain Patrol, a self-sponsored outcast regimen established to eliminate illegal slaughtering of endangered Tibetan Antelopes by impoverished local and out-of-province peasants, intimately engages with a half-Tibetan journalist from Beijing in a desolate depiction of human nature in the outskirts of Kekexili during a last resort campaign of portent and trial.