Aparna Sen to attend DIFF 2018

India’s veteran actor, filmmaker and screenwriter Aparna Sen is set to attend the 16th Dhaka International Film Festival (DIFF) in order to support her daughter’s film, which will screen there. The film titled “A Death in the Gunj,” directed by Sen’s daughter, Konkona Sen Sharma, will be screened among 170 films and will be competing in the Asian Competition Section category at the festival. The 16th Dhaka International Film Festival (DIFF) will be held in Dhaka from January 12 to 20, 2018, with the slogan: “Better Film, Better Audience and Better Society.” Rainbow Film Society has organized the festival since its inception in 1992. The festival has been divided into seven categories, ranging from feature length films to short films and documentaries. In order to promote Bangladeshi filmmakers and their works, DIFF will focus on “Bangladesh Panorama” screening  fiction films such as “Bhuban Majhi,” directed by Fakhrul Arefeen Khan, “Chitkini’ (Rest Is Silence), directed by Sajedul Awwal, and “Ekti Kabir Mrittu” (Death of a Poet), directed by Abu Sayeed, among many others. The International Film Critics’ Federation (FIPRESCI) will present the awards in the Critics’ Award category. FIPRESCI, in association with the International Film Critics Association of Bangladesh (IFCAB), will also organize the 1st Asian Film Critics Assembly (AFCA) from January 15to 16, 2018 at DIFF. IFCAB, in association with Pathshala South Asian Media Institute, is set to organize the 8th Dhaka Cine Workshop as a part of the DIFF. The workshop is an intensive two week-long program where creative professionals from diverse fields of the film industry will talk about filmmaking.