Intl Film Festival of India to kickstart from Nov 23

`The Whole World is One Family'- is the theme for this year's International Film Festival of India (IFFI) starting from November 23 in Goa.

Nearly 200 international and Indian films will be screened during the 11-day festival to be inaugurated by the veteran actor Mr Shashi Kapoor.

The festival will showcase critically acclaimed international films, world premieres, children's workshops, street animation, music concerts and open-air beach screenings to delegates and the public, Ms Nandini Paliwal, CEO of Entertainment Society of Goa, the nodal agency for organising IIFI 2006 said.

Special shows

This year, IFFI will feature special retrospective shows of Prithviraj Kapoor's films and a special screening of Richard Attenborough's film `Gandhi'. It would be held to mark the centenary of Satyagraha movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi.

The festival will open with Penelope Cruz starrer comedy `Volver' that bagged the `Best Screenplay' and `Best Actress' awards at the Festival de Cannes, 2006, and end with Brad Pitt's `Babel', winner of the `Best Director' at Cannes.