Rubaiyat Hossain directed “Under Construction” will have the honour of being the opening film at the 14th Dhaka International Film Festival (DIFF) to be held from January 14 to 22, 2016.

Hossain’s second feature film, starring Indian actors Rahul Bose, Sahana Goswami and Mita Rahman among others, had recently won the top award at the Mindanao Festival in the Philippines.

The Dhaka Festival organizers expect to screen approximately 170 films from 55 countries. The festival will have a competition section for Asian and Australian cinema and segment categories for: "Retrospective", "Cinema of the World "," Children's Film ","Women Filmmakers "," Short and Independent Films Section" , "Spiritual Films Section" and “Scandinavian Countries Films Session”.