The 39th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2008 was inaugurated by Rekha on Saturday. Goa Governor S. S. Sidhu, Chief Minister Digambar Kamat and Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Anand Sharma attended the opening ceremony.

The 11-day festival will be showcasing nearly 200 Indian and foreign films from 12 countries. The festival opens with Peter Chan's "The Warlords", a Chinese war epic set in the 1860s.

Around a dozen ‘Kannada’ movies have been chosen for ‘International Film Festival of India IFFI-2008’ as ‘Kannada Film Industry’ is celebrating its 75th anniversary.

International Film Fest will begin on Saturday (22 November) in Panaji, Goa with ace Bollywood beauty ‘Rekha’ doing the honours.

Girish Kasaravali’s Gulabi Takies, Umashankar's Banada Neralu, Abhaya Singh's Gubbachchi will be showcased in Indian Panorama film section.

Kannada 'Putti' has been picked out for documentary film section.

The 39th Edition of International Film Festival of India, to be held in Goa from Saturday November 22, will open with the film, 'The Warlords', directed by the renowned Hong Kong film-maker Peter Chan. Iranian film, 'The song of the sparrows', directed by Majid Majidi will be the closing film for the ten-day festival.

The 39th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) will start from November 22 in Goa. During the film festival, 200 films in various sections from dozen countries will be screened.

The "competition" section will include two Indian entries - S. Priyadarshan's Tamil film "Kanchivaram" and Ramesh Laxman More's acclaimed Marathi film "Mahasatta" along with 13 other films chosen from Bangladesh, Russia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Kazakhstan, Sri Lanka, Iran, the Philippines, Argentina, China and Japan.

Rohit Monserratte, son of Goa Education Minister who allegedly raped a German minor girl, was granted bail on Monday.

Parsvnath Developers, one of India’s leading real estate developers, has informed that the company’s subsidiary Parsvnath Hotels Ltd has received 5 star category approvals from Ministry of Tourism for hotel project at Patto Plaza, Panaji. 

The project is being developed on total land area of approx 3150.20 sq ft. and expected to be operational by end of 2010.