Curtain falls on the sixth edition of DIMFF

The country's first ever mobile phone based filmmaking festival, 'Dhaka International Mobile Film Festival' (DIMFF), is organised by Cinemascope, a film based apprenticeship programme of ULAB.  The sixth installment of the festival took place at Star Cineplex, Shimanto Shambhar, this year.

Devaki Bist (Nepal), Sadia Khalid Reeti (Bangladesh), and Arifur Rahman (Bangladesh) served as the jury members of the event. The partners of the festival were Prothom Alo, ABC Radio, Star Cineplex and MedFlect.

202 films were submitted from 41 countries from around the world this year, whereas, last year, 95 films were submitted from 34 countries. The Conundrum, directed by Anupam Hore and Tahsin Ahmed was announced as the winner at the grand finale of DIMFF 2020.

Other films nominated in the competition category were:  Distortion, Nostalgia, Sealed Deal, and Alive and Lily. Meherunnesa won the ULAB Young Filmmaker Award for her film, All Winner. Like the previous year, the center of attraction of this year's DIMFF was the one-minute film category, where students of grades 1 to 12 submitted their works.

Professor Gitiara Nasreen, Department of Mass Communication & Journalism, DU, attended the programme as the chief guest, along with filmmaker Kamar Ahmad Simon as the special guest and Professor Jude William Genilo, Head of Media Studies and Journalism from ULAB.

The government has decided to observe April 3 as the National Film Day from this year. Keeping that in mind, the film submission procedure for next year will begin from April 3, mentioned the organisers.