16th Dhaka Int’l Film Fest in January

MNA Culture & Entertainment Desk: The 16th Dhaka International Film Festival (DIFF) will be held in Dhaka from 12 to 20 January 2018. The Festival will be organized on a regular basis by Rainbow Film Society with the theme on ‘Better Film, Better Audience and Better Society’.

Festival Director of the Dhaka international film festival and President of Rainbow Film Society Ahmed Mujtaba Jamal informed ‘Necessary preparatory work in this regard is already underway. During the 16th Dhaka International Film Festival, 170 films from 60 countries will be screened. The festival will feature Asian cinema competition, retrospective, Bangladesh panorama, cinema of the world, children’s film, women filmmakers, short and independent films section and spiritual films section.’

Ahmed Muztaba Zamal said, ‘We are expecting numbers of woman filmmakers, actors and personalities from all over the world for attending our very important segment- ‘Fourth Dhaka International Conference on Women in Cinema 2018’ just like the previous years. This will be organized by Rainbow Film Society in association with the Department of Women and Gender Studies, University of Dhaka. This will be held at the Gallery of the Alliance Francaise de Dhaka on 13 and 14 January, 2018 during the festival.’

The organisation has been arranging the festival of the promotion of a healthy cine culture in Bangladesh and in celebrating the global mainstream in film and its social relevance since 1977.