A three-day world film festival, organised by the Calicut University Film Society, will begin on Wednesday at the Seminar Complex, Malappuram. Kurdish-Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi's Turtles Can Fly (2004) will be the inaugural movie. The first film from Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein, it will be screened at 6.30 p.m. Tales from the Golden Age, a Romanian-French film directed by Hanno Hofer and Razvan Marculescu, will be screened at 8.30 p.m. on the same day. The Violin, a 2008 black and white movie from Mexico, directed by Francisco Vargas, will be screened at 6 p.m. on February 18. The Battle of Algiers, a 1966 Italian war film, will be screened at 8.30 p.m. on the same day. The films to be screened on February 19 are Lumumba and Z. Calicut University Vice-Chancellor Anwar Jahan Zuberi will inaugurate the event. V.C. Harris, Kerala Chalachitra Akademi member, will deliver the keynote address on film societies and cinema culture.
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