Film festival on Liberation War, humanism and harmony begins tomorrow
Cultural Correspondent
As part of the silver jubilee celebration of Chalachchitram Film Society, a weeklong film festival on Liberation War, humanism and harmony' will be held from March 3 to 9 at Shawkat Osman Memorial Auditorium of Central Public Library, said Munira Morshed Munni, general secretary of Chalachchitram Film Society at a press conference yesterday. Veteran filmmaker Subhash Dutt will inaugurate the festival tomorrow at 5:30pm at the same venue. This will be followed by the screening of Russian filmmaker Grigori Chukhrai's classic film Ballad of a Soldier. A total of 21 films from different countries including Bangladesh will be screened in the festival. Among the films, 17 are full-length features, while two are short and the other two are documentaries. From March 4 to the end of the festival, three films will be screened daily at 3:00 pm, 5:00 pm and 7:00 pm. Eminent filmmaker Morshedul Islam, also the executive president of the Society and Dr Ashikur Rahman, the president of the Society also spoke on the occasion.
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Stills from the films Stop Genocide (Top) and Sharat '71 |
