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Of the three films denied screening permission at the upcoming International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, one has been on YouTube for several months. In the Shade of Fallen Chinar, made by Fazil NC and Shawn Sebastian in June 2016, explores the music and visual arts being produced by students of the University of Kashmir in Srinagar. The chinar trees on the campus have provided shelter to students exchanging songs, poems, stories, photographs and ideas considered subversive by a government in denial.
The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has denied the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala permission to screen the three titles. Ministry clearance for film festivals is mandatory, with a tacit understanding that explicit and provocative works that will not pass censor regulations can be shown within a festival setting.
Co-director Fazil said the ministry’s decision was surprising, especially since the film was a personal project that was posted on YouTube soon after its completion. “I was perplexed, to be frank, I didn’t know the reason,” he told Scroll.in. “We will be conducting protest screenings, and we will be approaching the Kerala High Court in our personal capacity to challenge the decision.”
https://thereel.scroll.in/840324/wa...r-the-i-b-ministry-has-blocked-at-kerala-fest