Hours earlier than the inauguration of the forty sixth version of the global Film Festival of India (IFFI) right here on Friday, Goa chief minister Laxmikant Parsekar appealed to the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) students to not dampen the party by staging their protest on the pageant inauguration venue.
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Panaji: The 46th global Film Festival of India (IFFI 2015) got underway here today with the screening of the opening film, “The Man Who Knew Infinity”, directed by Matthew Brown and based on the true story of the friendship between Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan and Prof G H Hardy.
“They shouldn’t dampen the spirit of the pageant, particularly when the state is so decked and equipped for IFFI”, Parsekar stated.
“It is essential to make these locations centres where creativity assembles”.
“It’s your festival Mr Parrikar”, he said to smiling defence minister in the first row.
The festival will also feature 120 premieres in different sections, which will represent spectacular worldwide films, according to an IFFI release.
Information and Broadcasting Minister Jaitley, in his inaugural speech, however thanked for the excellent suggestion to take IFFI to Goa permanently.
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Argentina’s Oscar entry and this year’s biggest Argentinean box office hit, The Clan (El Clan) will be the Closing Film of the festival, while Academy Award victor director, Tom Hooper’s film “The Danish Girl” will be the festival’s mid fest film. (The Second Mother) from Brazil, Nikita Mikhalkov’s Solnechnyy Udar from Russian Federation, Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Nie Yin Niang from Taiwan and Patricio Guzman’s El boton de nacar from Chile.
