The festival was launched to remedy the exclusion of certain indie films in the International Film Festival of Kerala . Director Sanal Kumar Sasidharan pulled his film , '' Sexy Durga '' , which had previously won the first-place Tiger Award in the International Film Festival Rotterdam ( IFFR ) from the Malayalam Cinema Today section of IFFK , and alleged that the festival was not giving due respect to independent films . Following the incident , Kazhcha Chalachithra Vedi announced the new festival . The first year of the festival was inaugurated by Anand Gandhi , the director of '' Ship of Theseus ''
International Film Festival of Kerala
International Film Festival of Kerala
Kazhcha-Niv Independent Film Festival