Twenty-six films including six Bangladeshi films will be screened on the second day of the 13th Dhaka International Film Festival (DIFF) at different venues across the capital today.
The films cover six categories- “Retrospective,” “Cinema of the World,” “Children’s Film, “Women Filmmakers,” “Short and Independent Films Section,” and “Spiritual Films Section.”
The festival features a competition in three categories- Asian and Australian and those of the six segments.
Five films will be screened today at the National Museum auditorium from 10am to 9pm in the “Cinema of the World” category. Antaral, directed by Nepali film maker Dipa Basnet will be screened at 10:30am, Beauty by Argentinian director Daniela Seggiaro at 1pm, Polvo by Julio Hemandez Cordon at 3pm, Ghetu Putra Komola directed by Humayun Ahmed at 5:30pm and Chorabali directed by Redoan Rony at 7:30.
Sixteen films will be screened including four Bangladeshi films short films will be screened at the Sufia Kamal Auditorium.
In the Independent and Spiritual Section, Folk Faith by Shahiduzzaman Badal, 36-24-36 by Bratto Amin, Bish Kabya (The Poison Teller) and Shohor Kabya (The City Song) by Shabnam Ferdousi will be screened from 1pm to 3pm.
Foreign films- Irrompibles by Luis Grajera from Spain, Solo by Mina Yonezawa from Japan, Long Days by Simin Fallahzadeh Tehrani from Iran, The Red Soil by Arash Yazdani from Iran will be screened from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. T’ Adhib by Raquel from Spain and Okul Nodi (Endless River) by Tuni Chatterji, Clay Dean from USA will be screened from 7:30pm to 9pm.
For competing in the three sections, five films will be screened at the Public Library auditorium-- Bardou by Seyed Hadi Mohaghegh at 10am, The Blindfold by Garin Nugroho at 1pm, Eve Donus Sarikamiş 1915 (The Long Way Home) by Alphan Eseli at 3pm, Udhao (Escape is not an Opinion) by Amit Ashraf at 5:30pm and Steppe Man (Colcu Cholchu) by Shamil Aliyev at 7:30pm.
Finance Minister AMA Muhit graced the first day of the festival as the chief guest while Information and Cultural Affairs Minister Hasanul Haq Inu was present as the special guest.
Director of the festival Ahmed Mustafa Jamal delivered a speech.