An ELITE cultural cabal has just REWRITTEN the rules of cinema at the International Film Festival of Kerala, and their CONTROVERSIAL winning films are a SHOCKING declaration of war on traditional values. Miyake Sho’s “Two Seasons, Two Strangers” took the top prize, but look deeper: the festival’s TRUE agenda is in the DARK, DISTURBING films it celebrated. A film titled “Life of a Phallus” won the Audience Poll Award, EXPOSING a public appetite for graphic critiques of patriarchy that would make your grandparents BLOOD BOIL.
The message is UNMISTAKABLE and DELIBERATE. Winners included “Cinema Jazireh,” about a widow forced to change her sexual identity to survive extremism, and “Shadowbox,” a brutal portrait of a family destroyed by a murder charge and mental illness. This is NOT entertainment—it’s a calculated, GLOOMY assault on hope, celebrating narratives of trauma, gender fluidity, and systemic despair. Are festivals now just HUBs for radical activism disguised as art?
The global film industry is APPLAUDING this descent into darkness, with these same titles sweeping awards from Locarno to local jury rooms. They praise “precise directorial gaze” and “singular cinematic experience,” but this is a CHORUS endorsing nihilism. What does it say about our culture when the most lauded stories are those of UNADULTERATED pain and identity deconstruction?
This award slate is a CANNED MANIFESTO for a broken world, and they’re projecting it on the big screen for us all to swallow. The curtain has been pulled back—this is the FUTURE they are choosing for us. One GRIM FRAME at a time.
Author: Kayitsi.com
