International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) 2011 closing ceremony

Featured in this video is the closing ceremony of 16th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) 2011 held at Nishagandhi auditorium in Thiruvananthapuram.

Columbian film The Colours of the Mountain directed by Carlos Cesar Arbelaez bagged the Suvarna Chakoram. The Rajatha Chakoram award for best director was given to Iranian film-maker Hamid Reza Aligholian for his film Flamingo No. 13. The Audience Award for the best competition section film at the 16th IFFK was bagged by A Painting Lesson, a Chilean film directed by Pablo Perelman.

Mr. K.B. Ganesh Kumar, Kerala Minister for Sports and Cinema, Bollywood director Subhash Ghai, Kerala Minister for Labour Shibu Baby John, Australian director and Jury Chairman Bruce Beresford, jury members Laurence Gavron and Rahul Bose, chairman of Kerala State Chalachithra Academy S. Priyadarshan, vice chairman Gandhimathi Balan, secretary K.G. Santhosh and festival deputy director Bina Paul Venugopal were present at the function.