Post the opening weekend of the film festival, Monday saw footfalls at the festival taper down. However, the serpentine queues for films and viewers going away disappointed unable to catch the film they wanted to see was still the order of the day.
Despite being screened at the first show in the morning, Serbian film ‘Train Driver’s Diary’ and Columbian film ‘Guilty Men’ saw audience thronging to the screens for a repeat screening. Another Columbian film ‘Oscuro Animal’ also saw a long serpentine queue.
All those with an interest in literature, including several Kannada writers themselves such as Manu Chakravarthy, S. Diwakar and T.P. Ashoka, queued up for the screening of Neruda, a biopic of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.
Continuing with the trend, most of the Kannada films screened at the venue on Monday enjoyed a big following. The Kannada films included actor Srinath’s Suli, Kanda, Dhwani and popular hits Jaggu Dada and Mungaru Male 2.
The organisers have been issuing daily passes and four day festival passes from Monday. However, their number was limited to 100 each and were sold out within an hour.
