Dhaka, Jan 9, 2008: The 10th Dhaka International Film Festival begins at the Bangladesh National Museum at Shahbagh today.
The slogan of the fair this year is ‘better film better audience and better society’.
The festival, to be organised by the Rainbow Film Society, will be inaugurated in the Shaheed Zia Auditorium of the museum at 4:00pm, the organisers said at a news briefing on Wednesday.
The nine-day biennial carnival will be held at the Central Public Library and the museum at Shahbagh, the Indian Cultural Centre at Gulshan, Russian Cultural Centre at Dhanmondi, and the British Council on the Fuller Road in Dhaka University area. Tickets will be available at the festival venues.
According to the organisers, over 100 films from 30 countries, including host Bangladesh, will be screened during the festival.
Films will be screened in 11 sections for the convenience of the movie lovers. The sections include the Austro-Asian, retrospective, tribute, focus Iceland, cinema of the world, beyond dreams, and an amazing reel life. Films will also be screened in the sections meant for children and women filmmakers.
Films on spirituality and films produced in the Latin American countries are also in the schedule of the festival list, they said.
A bunch of African films will be screened during the festival, they said, adding that some movies made in Iceland would also be shown in the section, titled ‘Focus Iceland’.
The organisers will pay tribute to the eminent Indian filmmaker Tarun Majumder by screening his best works at the festival. Along with other Indian movies, some recently made Assamese films are in the list of the screening schedule.
‘We cannot screen all the submitted films at the festival due to the imposition of taxes and certification by the censor board on the films to be screened here,’ said Zamal, the festival director.
Ahmed Muztaba Zamal, festival director and also the general secretary of Rainbow Film Society, chairman of the Dhaka International Film Festival Syed Marghub Morshed, and film director Badal Rahman attended the briefing.
@ The Bangladesh Journal
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