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Indian Panorama at IFFI to open with Konkani film

PANAJI: The Indian Panorama of the 40th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) with 44 films will open on Tuesday with Konkani film Poltadcho Monis. The film, directed by Laxmikant Shetgaonkar of Goa, won critics award at the recent Toronto Film Festival.

The India Panorama will be inaugurated by Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Ambika Soni. The IFFI 2009 will open here on Monday and end on December 3.

Director of Film Festivals S.M. Khan told presspersons here on Saturday that the Indian Panorama would have a bouquet of 26 feature films and 18 non-feature films.

The features section would have six Bengali films, five Hindi, three Kannada, three Marathi, three Malayalam, two Tamil films and one each in Rajasthani, Tulu, Konkani and English. The non-feature segment would include three Bengali films, five English, four Hindi and one film each in Malayalam, Manipuri and Marathi.

Chief Minister Digambar Kamat, who heads the Entertainment Society of Goa which co-hosts the IFFI with Directorate of Film Festivals, said a separate “Goa As Celluloid Destination” has been added this year in which eight films of various languages shot in Goa would be screened.

This section was meant to promote Goa as a film-shooting destination, he said. Animation and pixilation workshops will be new additions to the film festival. Besides, screening of short films/documentaries based on Indian music maestros and screening of Ye Hai Malegaon Ka Superman and Gabbarbhai MBBS, to give representation to Malegao industry of remakes, will be other highlights of the film festival.

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