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Greenhouse Effect at Goa
Greenhouse Effect, a Russian film not competiting at IFFI, was shown instead of the Argentinian entry, Kept and Dreamless.
Film festivals can also be hit by the Greenhouse Effect as delegates to the Goa International Film Festival of India (IFFI) found out on Monday.
Hundreds of delegates who came to the Inox theatre, the official venue of the IFFI, this morning were disappointed to see that the film they wanted to watch had been replaced by another.
Kept and Dreamless, the Argentinian entry for the Competition Section, which was scheduled for 1130 hrs, was suddenly taken out and Greenhouse Effect, a Russian film not competiting at IFFI put in, turning many film buffs red.
"We were not given any prior notice. The change in the schedule turned my whole plan for the day upside down," said Twinkle Kapdi, a media student from Mumbai, who learned about the revised screening plan only when she reached the theatre this morning.
Kept and Dreamless, which is about the bumpy relationship between an irresponsible junkie mother and her 10-year-old daughter directed by two film-makers (Vera Fogwill and Martin Desalvo), was the fourth movie to be showed in the competition section after the screenings began yesterday.
According to Directorate of Film Festivals (DFF) sources, the screening of the film was rescheduled after its print failed to arrive. The print, they said, had been booked for dispatch from Los Angeles to Goa on November 19 but had got stuck there due to unforeseen trouble at the courier's end.
The screening will now place towards the end of the festival, the DFF sources said.
Greenhouse Effect, the Russian feature film directed by Valery Akhadov, is an entry at the Cinema of the World section. The film, which has got nothing to do with warming of the earth, is about about those living on the fringes of the society.
