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India looks to Pakistani views, via the screens of Goa

GOA, June 29, 2008: For a country sometimes viewed as 'the enemy' in geopolitical rivalries or the cricket-field, the films of neighbouring Pakistan, currently being screened at the South Asian Film...


Eight diverse cinematographic traditions meet at Goa for SAFF

[Photo, venue of the SAFF at Goa, housed in an old colonial palatial mansion. Photo FN] Eight diverse countries, very differing historical and political traditions, unmatched...


Goa's IFFI finds a plush home, in what was a state-run hospital

[From Frederick Noronha] : Not too long ago, patients hobbled around here, their limbs in plaster and their bodies in bandages. Pregnant mothers-to-be faced labour pains in these rooms. Sick children...


Indian creative energy hits festival screens across the globe

 Indian film is bursting forth on screens far and wide, as film-makers take advantage of a more globalised world, a spurt in the visibility of local talent, and the possibilities this throws up."The...


Bollywood's posters of yesteryears, broad brushstrokes now vanishing

 [From FN] They once fired the Indian imagination, and built dreams for the millions. Today, the posters that built Bollywood are being displaced by technology and the changing needs of the...


Indian industry study pushes for adopting DRM in country

[From Our Correspondent] GOA, India, Nov 24: Indian national commerce chambers FICCI has pushed for the adoption of an "efficient" digital rights management (DRM) system, and said this would give "a...


Indian film star Shahrukh Khan inaugurates 38 IFFI; Goa to "stay" as venue

GOA, India, Nov 24, 2007: The 38th International Film Festival of India (IFFI-07) got off here with Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan inaugurated the event late Friday. Politicians also pledged that...


Film equipment, from decades back to the latest, on show at Goa

From Our CorrespondentGOA, India, November 24: India's Films Division, a legacy from the days when documentary film-making in India was largely government-dominated, has put up a cine expo, released...


Photos from Goa, IFFI 2007

 An eighteenth-century palace that once was the property of a Portuguese nobleman was redone at a cost of Rs 140 million for the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), being held at Goa, on the...


Four Months 3 weeks 2 days The opening film of the festival

[img_assist|nid=7681|title=|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=140|height=99]The International Film Festival of India will open with the most celebrated film of the year ‘FOUR MONTHS, THREE WEEKS, TWO...