Iffi Ftii Protests

The agitating FTII students started their 'rebel' film festival on Tuesday, featuring films made by the current and past students of the film institute, in protest against the exclusion of their films from the ongoing International Film Festival of India (IFFI).

Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar today questioned protests by FTII students at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), and said "students could not protest as a matter of right".

FTII sympathisers will hold a two-day alternative film festival in Panaji from November 24 to protest against the treatment meted out to the institute students at the 46th IFFI in Panaji, an FTII alumnus said today.

In separate incidents, Goa police today arrested an FTII student at the venue of the ongoing International Film Festival of India and detained a group of about hundred people who were protesting outside over the death of a local activist.

Hours before the inauguration of the 46th edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Panaji today, 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 at the festival inauguration venue.

Amid reports of a likely protest by Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) students at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) venue, the government today said that they were hopeful that the students would not do anything that will hurt the country's image at a global platform.

After calling off their 139-day strike and getting eminent filmmakers to join their protest, the FTII students are planning their next move. They have dropped hints about "big plans" around the upcoming International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa.

The agitating FTII students started their 'rebel' film festival on Tuesday, featuring films made by the current and past students of the film institute, in protest against the exclusion of their films from the ongoing International Film Festival of India (IFFI).

Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar today questioned protests by FTII students at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), and said "students could not protest as a matter of right".

FTII sympathisers will hold a two-day alternative film festival in Panaji from November 24 to protest against the treatment meted out to the institute students at the 46th IFFI in Panaji, an FTII alumnus said today.

In separate incidents, Goa police today arrested an FTII student at the venue of the ongoing International Film Festival of India and detained a group of about hundred people who were protesting outside over the death of a local activist.

Hours before the inauguration of the 46th edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Panaji today, 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 at the festival inauguration venue.

Amid reports of a likely protest by Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) students at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) venue, the government today said that they were hopeful that the students would not do anything that will hurt the country's image at a global platform.

After calling off their 139-day strike and getting eminent filmmakers to join their protest, the FTII students are planning their next move. They have dropped hints about "big plans" around the upcoming International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa.