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Five-day Iranian film exhibition begins in Dhaka

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Update : 14 Feb 2022, 16:23

On the occasion of 43rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, a five-day  an Iranian film exhibition  has started at Iran Cultural Center in Dhaka.

Prominent Iranian film director Morteza Atashzamzam, Dhaka University Department of Persian Language and Literature professor Abdus Sabur Khan, associate professor and Iranian film analyst Md Mumit Al Rashid joined the inaugural ceremony and screening on Sunday afternoon, while the ceremony was presided over by Iran Cultural Center in Dhaka Cultural Counsellor Sayyed Hasan Sehat.

Speakers at the event said that in the years since the victory of the Islamic Revolution, Iran’s film industry has added a new dimension to the world’s film world for audiences and intellectuals.

While most of the world’s filmmakers are trying to utilize more commercial tools in their films to attract audiences, Iranian filmmakers have opted for a different dimension by using their professional skills and aesthetic workmanship and social, character and human values, the speakers opined.

In addition to powerful screenplays and storytelling, extraordinary and unprecedented acting of the Iranian performers, and the captivating appeal of its production crew including world-class technical techniques have altogether made Iranian cinema widely admired by audiences around the world today, as well as being awarded frequently at many top international film festivals even the Oscars, the speakers added.

Bengali-dubbed Iranian film ‘Bodyguard’ was screened at the exhibition on the opening day of the exhibition, . The film is directed by popular Iranian filmmaker Ibrahim Hatami Kia. Bodyguard is the story of a middle-aged man who protects high-ranking political figures. However, he gets into trouble when a suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest approaches to the vice president.

The five-day Iranian film exhibition will run until 18 February. Each day, there will be one movie screening at 3:00 pm.
 

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