French master filmmaker Claire Denis will visit Bangladesh to attend a programme titled Tareque Masud Master’s Class in December. The two-day programme will be held on December 8 and 9 at Chhayanaut at Dhanmondi in the capital. The programme, which will start at 9:00am on both the days, will feature screening of six films by Claire Denis along with discourse session with the filmmaker. Filmmaker Kamar Ahmad Simon will conduct the main discourse session with Claire Denis.
The programme has jointly been organised by Embassy of France in Bangladesh and Beginning Production, a production house. Institut Francais, UniFrance Films and American International University (AIUB) are also supporting the programme.
Interested participants are requested to register themselves on facebook.com/Filmy.Bahas by November 22. Only selected participants will be able to attend due to limited number of seats.
‘When the entire world is thriving with alternative school of thoughts, when parallel narrative is merging with the mainstream more and more, then we are judging a creative medium like cinema with profit only. This notion won’t last much longer; hence it is essential to understand others’ language if you want to establish your own in this globalised era,’ Kamar Ahmad shared with New Age about the visit of the French filmmaker.
Palme d’Or nominee of Cannes and winner of Golden Leopard’ in Locarno, Claire Denis is considered as one of the leading auteur directors of contemporary French cinema. Denis was born in Paris and raised in colonial French Africa and therefore many of her films deal with themes of colonialism and post-colonialism in Africa. Her important films include Chocolate, No Fear No Die, I Can’t Sleep, 35 Shots of Rum, The Intruder, and others.
-With New Age input
