Bfsm Film Festival
Huge audience enjoy films on Pahela Phalgun
A jam-packed audience enjoyed a Satyajit Ray classic and three other local independent films screened on Thursday at the National Art Gallery auditorium of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy.
Since the day was Pahela Phalgun visitors, in colourful attires, watched the films including Ray’s Pather Panchali, Morshedul Islam’s short film Agami, Tareque and Catherine Musud directed documentary Muktir Gaan and Tanvir Mokammel’s film Chitra Nadir Parey.
It was the second day’s programme of the nine-day film festival jointly organised by Bangladesh Film Society Movement and Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy.
The festival is the concluding programme of the yearlong golden jubilee celebrations of the film society movement in Bangladesh that began in January last year.
The yearlong celebrations included comprehensive programmes like seminar on different film issues on March 16, rally on April 3, roundtable discussion on crisis of film industry and way of solution on July 6, daylong art camp on November 8.
The festival was inaugurated on Wednesday at the National Theatre Hall of the academy by poet-playwright Syed Shamsul Haque.
Filmmaker Syed Salauddin Zaki was present as special guest. Director General of BSA Liaquat Ali Lucky presided over the inauguration, and filmmaker Morshedul Islam, who is the member secretary of the festival, delivered welcome speech.
The speakers at the inauguration programme emphasised the influential role of the film society movement in the filmdom of the country.
Following the inauguration, national and international awards winning famous film Surja Dighal Bari (1980) was screened at the venue. Directed jointly by Sheikh Niyamat Ali and Mashiuddin Shaker, the film is based on Abu Ishaque’s novel with the same title.
Other local films to be screened at the festival include Tareque Masud’s Matir Moyna, Alamgir Kabir’s Surja Kannya, Nurul Alam Atik’s Dub Satar, Abu Sayeed’s Shankha Naad, Badal Rahman’s Emile-r Goyenda Bahini, Shamim Akhter’s Itihas Kannya, Morshedul Islam’s Chaka.
Among the foreign films are Satyajit Ray’s Pather Pachali, Mrinal Sen’s Akaler Sandhane, Ritwik Ghatak’s Meghe Dhaka Tara, Russian director Mikhail Kalatozov’s Cranes are Flying, Italian director Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thief and Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon.
The film festival was originally planned to hold at the end of the last programme; but due to unsuitable political unrest it had to be postponed.
-With New Age input
