3-day Swiss Film Festival begins in city Dec 7

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City Desk :
A three-day Swiss Film Festival begins on Sunday at Goethe Institute Auditorium in the city’s Dhanmondi area.
Three internationally acclaimed Swiss films- “The Black Brothers”, “More than Honey” and the “Der Verdingbub” (The Foster Boy), would be screened during the festival.
The Embassy of Switzerland in Bangladesh in cooperation with the Goethe Institute in Dhaka has been organizing the film festival.
The film “The Black Brothers” would be screened on the opening day of the festival on Sunday at 6.00 pm.
The film set in the 19th century backdrop, tells an adventurous story of the young chimney sweepers in Italy and their spectacular escape back to Switzerland.
The second film of the festival- “More than Honey”- is an internationally acclaimed Swiss documentary film that raises the question whether we should be worried about the apparent disappearance of the bees would be screened on Monday at 6.00 pm.
The film was nominated for Academy Awards under Best Foreign Language Film category. The last film of the festival, “Der Verdingbub” (The Foster Boy) depicts the difficult life of an orphan boy in his foster house, where he is treated badly, and his emotional journey, would be screened on Tuesday at 6:00 pm.
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