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Award giving ceremony held

10th Dhaka International Film Festival

The end of the event

Ershad Kamol
Tenth Dhaka International Film Festival, the biggest event of its kind in the country, ended yesterday at the National Museum Auditorium. Though initially the organiser Rainbow Film Society announced that the nine-day festival would continue at five venues, which began on January 10, was held at only two venues: Central Public Library Auditorium and National Museum Auditorium.
Only 33 movies had been screened of the expected over 100 full-length films, short films and documentaries from 40 countries.
Of the announced 11 sections of films -- Australasian Cinema, Retrospective. Tribute, Cinema of the World, Focus, African Films, Bangladesh Panorama, Independent Film. Women Filmmaker Section, Spiritual Film Session and International Cinema -- the organiser has failed to screen African Films, Retrospective, Tribute and Focus sections. Only one movie had been screened from two sec-
In response to the question related to the failure the organisers blamed the restriction created by Bangladesh Film Censor Board. Director of the Festival Committee, Ahmed Muztaba Zamal said, “We
have been arranging the festival regularly. In the previous nine occasions we had never faced such bureaucratic restrictions, never had we paid for censorship clearance to the board for arranging the festival. Like the previous years we also approached the Ministry of Information for special consideration, but we had not get any positive response."
"Moreover, we did not get censorship clearance in time. Which is why we could not give the schedule of the festival in press. That is the reason behind unsatisfactory turnout", said Zamal.
‘Tn fact, the government should immediately form a guideline
related to film screening, especially in case of arranging International film festivals. Otherwise, it is not possible to organise an international standard festival in the country", added Zamal.
Zamal also said that keeping the experience of this year's festival Rainbow Film Society would be able to arrange a better festival next time.
The award giving ceremony was held on yesterday at the National Museum Auditorium.
Iranian movie Kargaran Mashghoule Karand (Men at Work), directed by Mani Haghighi won the International Jury Award at the Australasian Competition section, the main competition section of the festival. Bangladeshi movie Mad_e in Bangladesh, directed by Mostafa Sarwar Farooki, won the Special Mention at the same sec-« tion.
ft Sri Lankan film Sankara, p directed by Prasanna Jayakody won ? the International Critics Prize provided by International Film Critics Federation (FIPRESCI) Jury
Bangladeshi movie Ghani, directed by Kazi Morshed Best Film Award awarded by SIGNIS, a Bel gium based organisation. Malaysian movie Cinta, directed by Kabir Bhatia won the Special Mention at the same category.
Rupkothar Golpo, directed by Tauqir Ahmed won Audience Award, which was warded by the survey doney of the organiser.
The festival was arranged by Rainbow Film Society in association with European Union, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Royal Norwegian Embassy, SIGNIS, Religion Today Film Festival and GMG Airlines.