In organisation with UNICEF, Children’s Film Society Bangladesh will organize a Fifth International Children’s Film Festival, patrician “Future in Frames”, starting from Jan 21. The weeklong legal holiday will proceed during Shawkat Osman Memorial Auditorium of Central Public Library, Shahbagh in Dhaka.
Planning Minister Air Vice Marshal (retd.) AK Khandaker will establish a festival. Veteran artist as well as authority of a Festival Advisory Committee, Mustafa Monwar, will regulate over a programme.
Around 250 films, together with full-length features, shorts, animations, as well as documentaries from 42 participating countries will be screened during a festival. The legal holiday will additionally underline a competition upon drive-in theatre done by children, workshops as well as seminars upon opposite aspects of filmmaking.
Among a participating countries are: Argentina, Austria, Australia, Hungary, Canada, India, Iran, Italy as well as Bangladesh. The Central Public Library premises will be used as a categorical venue, whilst drive-in theatre will additionally be screened during thirteen alternative venues, together with Chittagong, Sylhet, Rangpur, Barisal as well as Rajshahi.
In Dhaka, a drive-in theatre will additionally be screened during Shishu Academy, Russian Centre of Science as well as Culture, Alliance Francaise de Dhaka, British Council Auditorium, Daffodil University, Al Nahian Complex in Mirpur as well as Bangladesh College of Leather Technology Auditorium in Hazaribagh.