Panaji: India claimed the top honours at the 41st International Film Festival of India (IFFI) here after Gautam Ghose's Moner Manush won the Golden Peacock award on Thursday.
Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier's In a Better World won the Silver Peacock award for the best director at a glittering closing ceremony here attended, among others, by Bollywood actor and National Award winner Saif Ali Khan.
Guven Kirac, who acted in the Turkish film The Crossing, won the Silver Peacock for the best actor, while Magdalena Boczarska won the Silver Peacock for the best actress for her performance in the Polish film Little Rose.
The special jury award was split between Indian film Just Another Love Story by Kaushik Ganguly and Boy by Kiwi filmmaker Taika Waititi....
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09:15 AM, Dec 03, 2010
Panaji: Business and liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya will give away the best short film awards, including an environment film award, at the 41st International Film Festival of India's (IFFI) short film centre (SFC) on Tuesday. "Mr. Mallya will be attending award ceremony as chief guest. The SFC concept has clicked well and it has given a platform for the documentary filmmakers. Mr. Mallya's presence would give a boost to the...
03:53 PM, Nov 29, 2010
Panaji: French director Bertrand Tavernier's The Princess of Montpensier will be the closing film at the 41st International Film festival of India (IFFI), director of Film Festivals S.M. Khan said on Saturday. Addressing a press conference here, Khan said The Ghost Writer directed by Roman Polanski will be a mid fest film. The Princess of Montpensier is a 2010 French period romance film directed by Bertrand Tavernier, inspired by the...
05:10 AM, Nov 28, 2010
Panaji: The film bazaar, organised by the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC), had Rajkumar Hirani and Abhijat Joshi speaking about script writing. A delightful session by Raj Kumar Hirani and Abhijat Joshi as they spoke about the art and science of script writing to an audience that comprised of media persons, film-makers and students. The duo called their session, The recipes of script writing, which included 'Make the movie for...
12:34 PM, Nov 26, 2010
Panaji: Bengali film Nauka Doobi is directed by eight time national award winner, Rituparno Ghosh. The premiere was attended by Subhash Ghai (His banner Mukta Arts has produced the film) and one of the actresses in the film, Riya Sen. The movie stars Riya Sen, Raima Sen and Prosenjit Chatterjee. Noted lyricist Gulzar has translated Tagore's lyrics into Hindi for the film. Talking just before the premiere, Ghai told us...
12:15 PM, Nov 26, 2010
For its next festival, the celebrated Locarno festival has decided to have a segment focussing on Indian films. The Festival's co-production Lab's Open Doors focussed on China last year and South Asia this year. The announcement was made by Festival's Artisitc director Olivier Pere and Head of Locarno's Industry Office, Nadia Dresti at a press conference organised at IFFI. Pere said, "Every one knows about India as the largest in...
12:10 PM, Nov 26, 2010
38-year-old Fatih Akin, German director of Turkish origin, who is known for his films like Head On, In July, New York I love you, The Edge of Heaven, was in Goa fielding questions by Indian film-maker Anurag Kashyap...Some excerpts.... "I listen to everyone's opinion. I think not listening is the problem. Script writers and film-makers have their ears blocked with ego. Even otherwise as a society we don't listen. America...
11:40 AM, Nov 26, 2010
Panaji: I am Kalam, a children's film based on former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, is aimed at inspiring the poor to educate their children, director of the film Nila Madhab Panda said at the 41st International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa. The film will be screened at the festival Thursday. "The aim is to ensure that even under privileged people are inspired to educate their children even the...
06:00 PM, Nov 25, 2010
When you are made to watch movies like 3 Idiots and Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa, you wonder if it's really worth making that trip to Goa for the festival. Even world cinema-wise, IFFI seems to be seriously lagging behind in the general scenario. This sentiment was echoed by film-maker Anurag Kashyap. Kashyap, whose films have made several festival rounds around the world,told IBNLive.com, "I am disappointed with the choice. The...
02:38 PM, Nov 25, 2010
Indian cinema will complete 100 years in 2013 and by then the film lovers might get to visit a museum totally dedicated to the Indian film industry. Kuldeep Sinha, Director General of Films Division announced that the work for a museum is on and it is likely to be inaugurated in the year 2013. The museum, he informed, will cover everything about Indian cinema, which would include costumes, screen plays,...
04:49 PM, Nov 24, 2010
Dancing feet was inaugurated by the Goa CM Digambar Kamat, in the presence of dignitaries like Sitara Devi, Pt. Birju Maharaj etc. The festival, which will feature 22 select documentaries, Dancing Feet will showcase various dance forms of India, like Bharathanatyam, Kuchipudi, Kathakali, Odissi, Kathak, Mohiniattam and Manipuri. It will also include some movies based on the lives of some dancing icons like Sitara Devi, Pt. Birju Maharaj, Yamini Krishnamurthy,...
04:19 PM, Nov 24, 2010
Panaji: Barely two days after veteran Bollywood filmmaker Yash Chopra gave a tongue-lashing to the Goa and central governments for imposing new taxes on the film industry, an embarrassed state government has taken cue. "We are considering offering tax reimbursement to the filmmakers who are keen on shooting in Goa," chief executive officer of the Entertainment Society of Goa (ESG) Manoj Srivastava said on Wednesday. The official was speaking at...
03:40 PM, Nov 24, 2010
Panaji: Realistic film maker Madhur Bhandarkar says he might make a comeback to action films soon. Bhandarkar, speaking to reporters at the 41st edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), also said his films are made according to his will and the film's 'heroes and heroines' have nothing to do with it. "My films are made as per my will. If at all I change the script, it's...
08:14 PM, Nov 23, 2010
Panaji: West is West producer Leslee Udwin said she was disappointed to see nearly 40 percent of the audience walk out of the screening of the film at the start of 41st International Film Festival of India (IFFI) a day earlier. Speaking to reporters in Panaji, Leslee said that a large section of the audience at her film's screening on Monday were officials or people who were interested in "things...
06:34 PM, Nov 23, 2010
Panaji: A woman who has tracked down and visually documented disappearing lakes in New Delhi's periphery now says rampant unplanned urbanisation will spell disaster for Goa. Ishani Dutta, whose documentary film The Land of the Vanishing Lakes will be screened at the Short Film Centre (SFC) of the 41st International Film Festival of India (IFFI), told that planned urbanisation was the only way for Goa to sustain itself. "Rampant unplanned...
02:30 PM, Nov 23, 2010
Panaji: Veteran filmmaker Yash Chopra blasted the Goa government for not doing enough to promote the state as a destination for film festivals of international standards. Chopra, speaking at the inauguration ceremony in the presence of Chief Minister Digambar Kamat, said Goa as a destination for international film festivals needed a "lot more improvement" and "time was running out". "Even after six, seven, eight years, we still do not have...
02:16 PM, Nov 23, 2010
Bollywood diva Manisha Koirala, who triggered a storm of gossip about an impending divorce following a hasty online comment, says things were blown out of proportion and she is still happily married to her Nepali entrepreneur husband. The 40-year-old acclaimed actor, who is attending the International Film Festival of India that kicked off in Goa on Monday, found herself in the eye of a storm both at home and in...
12:23 PM, Nov 23, 2010
Panaji: Veteran Bollywood director Yash Chopra will inaugurate the 41st International Film Festival of India (IFFI), an official said on Monday. "Yash Chopraji will be inaugurating the festival. We will also be felicitating several actors whose names will be disclosed later," S.M. Khan, director of the Directorate of Film Festivals, told reporters here. The festival begins Nov 22 and goes on till Dec 2. "We have received a record number...
07:44 PM, Nov 15, 2010
Panaji: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will file a charge sheet by the year-end in the multi-crore scam in infrastructure creation for the 2004 International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa, police said on Thursday. Superintendent of Police S.S. Gavli told reporters that investigations in the 2004 scam were over. Former chief minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Manohar Parrikar is an accused in the scam....
12:04 PM, Oct 07, 2010
