<the upcoming 36th IFFI already looks like a damp squib>[ carlos, goanet, Apr 29 citing NT]
I came across the Dec 13, 2004 issue of INDIA TODAY just a short while ago. It has a three page piece on the 35th IFFI titled "Film Festivity" . It starts off saying "one would have had a hard time believing it was an international film festival". Part of the problem might have been "the behind the scenes cold war" between the Directorate of Film Festivals (DFF) and the Goa Government (GG) which resulted in utter chaos at the inaugural function and the hijacking of IFFI by GG. The latter was because "Parrikar's Cannes delegation missed the wood for the trees" viz relying on Bollywood and beach cinema for generating imagined Cannes-style hoopla and crowding out the crucial process of film selection (DFF's bailiwick). Damp squib? Reality check may be the better phrase. Otherwise, IFFI in Goa may become the laughing stock of international film festivals of which there are said to be 600 every year.