Malayalam movies screened at the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK 2022) have been extremely popular with festival-goers. All the Malayalam films including Avasavyuham and Nishiddho screened in the International Competition category played to packed houses. Bringing together the past glory as well as new experiments etched in the annals of the Malayalam cinema industry, homegrown movies ranging from the legend, G. Aravindan’s 4K restored version of Kummatty to Jeo Baby’s contemporary The Great Indian Kitchen, found favour equally with the audiences. The False Eye, which bagged the National Award for Best Movie in 2020; Vignesh’s philosophical drama Allusion;  Sherry Govind’s Avanovilona;  Siddharth Siva’s The Following Persons (Ennivar); Bannerghatta; Sanu Varghese’s Who Knows; and Renjith Sankar’s Sunny also played to full houses.
The Malayalam films cherry-picked in the Homage category and seven movies under Unforgettable Venuchettan also appealed to crowds of all ages.