Taiwanese film 'The Wall' won the Golden Peacock for the best film, and a cash award of a million rupees, at the 38th International Film Festival of India, which ended here late Monday.This is a finely-crafted films about the dreams, hope, betrayal and love of ordinary people living in politically-challenging times.It is highly cinematic, and making the political personal.The filmmaker creates a entire world within the four walls of a simple house.Thai debut director Ms Pongpat Wachirabunjon bag...

Panjim, GOA INDIA, November 23: The 38th International Film Festival of India (IFFI-07) takes off later today in the former Portuguese colony of Goa, on the west coast of India.Mainstream Indian Bollywood film actor Shahrukh Khan will be the chief guest, scheduled for Friday evening (India is five-and-half hours ahead UTC).The inaugural lamp -- a traditional mark of inaugurations done in India -- will be lit with the assistance of Priyamani, a rising star of southern cinema. Inaugural function ...

The Romanian winner of the Palme d'Or and the FIPRESCI Award at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days", will be the opening movie of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) which begins in Goa Nov 23.The film is set in communist Romania in the final years of the Nicolae Ceausescu era. It tells the tragic story of two students, roommates in the university dormitory, who try to arrange an illegal abortion for one of them in the late 1980s.After making its worldwide d...