The Dhaka University Film Society (DUFS) is organising a two-day film festival, which starts today, at Alliance Française de Dhaka in the capital’s Dhanmondi area.
Jointly working with AFD’s Renoir Film Club, the DUFS will screen four French films, both classic and modern, as a part of World Film Manifestation Programme. The selected titles are films based on the First World War, which somewhat follow the soul of the project the AFD organised in February.
The Grand Illusion (1937)
Directed by Jean Renoir
Time: 4pm, Today
During WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are sent to a seemingly impenetrable fortress. Merry Christmas (2005)
Directed by Christian Carion
Time: 6pm, Today
On Christmas Eve during WWI, the Germans, French, and Scottish fraternise and get to know the men who live on the opposite side of a brutal war, in what became a lesson of humanity. The Officers’ Ward (2001)
Directed by François Dupeyron
Time: 4pm, Tomorrow
In the first days of WWI, Adrien, a young and handsome lieutenant, is wounded by a piece of shrapnel. He spends the entire wartime at the Val-de-Grâce Hospital in Paris. The White Ribbon (2009)
Directed by Michael Haneke
Time: 6:30pm, Tomorrow
Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before WWI, which seem to be ritual punishment and a mystery.