Dhaka International Film Fest opens today

The 14th edition of the Dhaka International Film Festival opens today in the capital, with the theme “Better Film, Better Audience, Better Society”. Organised by Rainbow Film Society, the weeklong festival will screen 184 films from 60 countries across four venues: National Museum Auditorium, Shawkat Osman Memorial Auditorium of the Sufia Kamal Public Library, Alliance Francaise de Dhaka Auditorium and EMK Center Auditorium.

Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu will inaugurate the festival at the National Museum Auditorium, alongside prolific Syrian director Mohammad Malas and Norwegian filmmaker Anja Breien. The festival will open with Rubaiyar Hossain's film “Under Construction”.

Festival Director Ahmed Mujtaba Jamal also informed that the festival will be divided into several sections: the Australasia competitive section, retrospective section, cinema of the world section, tributes, children's films, spiritual films, women's films and independent films. Around 88 foreign guests are expected to attend the festival, 60 of whom are already in town, he added.