
IFFI Building
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Overview
Originally a medical college and hospital, it was built by the Portuguese in 1842 as the Escola Médico-Cirúrgica de Goa (Medical-Surgical School of Goa). It is the oldest Medical College in Asia. The school was then moved to Banbolim in the year 1993.
In the year 2004, the premises was mooted by the Govt of Goa and the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Delhi, based on Goa’s world reputation as a tourist destination, with its unique flavour of European lifestyle co-existing with multi-cultural ethnic sensibilities, was made the premises for International Film Festival of India (IFFI). This has invited consensus from internationally recognized organizations, film bodies and elsewhere in India as the ideal venue for IFFI.