Cultural Correspondent
Dhaka will host a week-long festival featuring films from home and abroad for the children. More than 120 films from will be screened at the second international children’s film festival, beginning on January 24, said the organisers at a briefing at the Dhaka Reporters Unity on Saturday.
Puppeteer Mustafa Monwar, filmmaker Morshedul Islam, ActionAid Bangladesh executive Farah Kabir and Munira Morshed Munni, among others, attended the briefing.
The speakers urged the government for taking steps to organise more events for the children.
?We are going to hold the festival for children at a time when the children of Palestine are being killed by the Israeli forces. We strongly condemn the killing and urge the Israeli authorities to stop the killing immediately’, said the festival director, Morshedul Islam.
?We are trying to get a Palestinian documentary film on the role of children of both Israel and Palestine to stop war between the two neighbours’, he said.
Countries including Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Chile, Croatia, Cuba, Denmark, Ethiopia, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, India, Iran, Ireland, Japan, Kenya, Mongolia, Nepal, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Congo, Russian Federation, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Vietnam will participate in the festival.
About the censor fees, Morshed said, ?We have already applied to the authorities concerned for a free censor certificate for the films selected for the festival’.
Professor Abdullah Abu Sayeed is expected to inaugurate the festival, organised by Children’s Film Society Bangladesh in association with UNICEF, ActionAid Bangladesh, Manusher Janyo Foundation, Save the Children Sweden-Denmark, GEC Bangladesh, BRAC, Nijera Kori, daily Prothom Alo, British Council, Goethe Institut, Russian Centre of Science and Culture, Alliance Fran硩se and Iran Cultural Centre.
Films will be screened at six venues, including Central Public Library and British Council, said the organisers, adding they would hold a daylong seminar on children’s film on January 27 at the Public Library.
Courtesy: weeklyholiday.net
