Entertainment Desk :
The 5th Hill Film Festival took place from November 4 to 6 at the Khudro Nrigosthir Sangskritik Institute, the Cultural Institute, in Rangamati, organised by Jum
Film Forum. The festival focuses on films made in the different
languages of the different indigenous communities, living in
the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
This year, 24 films were screened under seven categories. Short
films and documentaries from the Bawm, Chakma and Marma indigenous communities have been selected under the competition category, and under feature fiction, a film from the Tripura community. Along with the local films, other film makers from across Bangladesh and other countries have been screened at the festival. The Special Screening category covered Matir Projar Deshe an acclaimed feature film, directed by Bijon Imtiaz, Felim-Cinema for Identity a documentary, directed
by Adit Dewan and Turin Tanchangya, Stranger’s Question a short fiction, directed by Santua Tripura, and Khumi I Awmnai Rita
a documentary by Shuvashish Chakma. Hill Classics were Dulu Kumori (2006), the first Chakma feature film from Bangladesh, directed by Tarun Chakma, and Andolot Pahr (1996), the first film made in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, directed by Foyaz Zahir and produced by Jum Aesthetic Council (JAC). In the Retrospective category, two German films From Morn
to Midnight by Karlheinz Martin and Alice in the Cities by Wim Wenders were screened. Three Special Jury, one Best Short, and one Best Documentary Award were awarded. The Special Jury Award winners were Gomeera by Deepak Roy, The Home in Sound
by Fuaduzzaman Fuad and
A Tale of a Hilly Girl by Sing
Mong Prue Marma.
