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The IFFK Experienzia, a timeless memorabilia exhibition of 30 years of cinema legacy—IFFK, was officially inaugurated at the Tagore Theatre on the third day by prominent African director Abderrahmane Sissako, winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Over these 30 glorious years, Thiruvananthapuram loved patiently standing in queues, enjoying debate-filled midnights, distant languages, and new faces. Each December, the theatres filled not just with films, but with a touch of dreams, dissent, and discovery.
IFFK grew like a quiet habit, passed from seniors to juniors to lifelong cinephiles. This cinematic journey, initiated for the first time in Kozhikode in 1994, is still lit with bright and colourful breath and life today.
Showcasing a rich culture that originated and grew through and with cinema, Experienzia displays previous IFFK kits, delegate ID cards, and many frames filled with films from past years, encompassing world-renowned titles and retrospectives of legendary directors. Posters of classics, including Battleship Potemkin, City Lights, Rashomon, Electra My Love, and Kanchana Seetha, shed light on the festival’s past. The main attraction of the exhibition is the single-frame portraits of figures like Godard, Francesco Rosi, Youssef Chahine, Mrinal Sen, Saeed Mirza, M. T., P. N. Menon, and Sharada, who will remain timelessly remembered in the minds of cinephiles long after the exhibition closes.