Oscar film festival in city

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala State Chalachitra Academy is organizing a festival of Oscar award winning films of 2011 from March 23 to 29 at the Sree Padmanabha Theatre here.
Minister for cinema, K B Ganesh Kumar would inaugurate the festival at 1.30 pm at Padmanabha on Friday. There will be three regular shows of each film at 2.00 pm, 5.30 pm and 8.00 pm on every day.
Entry pass for all days together would cost Rs 200. Passes are available at the theatre
The films being screened are: ‘The Artiste’ (dir: Michel Hazanavicius), ‘The Help’ (dir: Tate Taylor), ‘The Descendants’ (dir: Alexande Payne), ‘The Tree of Life’ (dir: Terence Mallick), ‘Tinker Tailor’, ‘Soldier’, ‘Spy’ (dir: Tomas Alfredson), ‘The Ides of March’ (dir: George Clooney), ‘The War Horse’ (dir: Steven Spielberg), ‘The Muppets’ ( dir: James Bobin).