Seminar on war films held
Robab Rosan
More documentary films are needed to project the incidents which took place during the country’s war of independence. The documentary films will help the younger generations to know the authentic history of the war.
Speakers stated this at a seminar on the importance of documenting the atrocities, committed by the occupation forces in Bangladesh during the war.
As part of weeklong programme of the Second International Festival of Docufilms on Liberation and Human Rights, the joint organisers Liberation War Museum and Bangladesh Documentary Council arranged the seminar at the compound of the Liberation War Museum in Segun Bagicha in the city on Saturday.
Among others Mafidul Haque of the Liberation War Museum, Fauzia Khan of the Bangladesh Documentary Council, theatre personalities Ramendu Majumdar and Nasiruddin Yousuff, documentary filmmakers Manzare Hasin Murad, Kawsar Chowdhury andYasmin Kabir, and film director Badal Rahman were present at the seminar.
Speakers also talked about the reality, problems and prospects of documentary filmmaking in Bangladesh. They said that some younger filmmakers are working in the field of documentary filmmaking, particularly on the war of independence. But the filmmakers need assistance from different sections of society, they added.
In a written speech, Fauzia Khan proposed that they should work to collect oral history of the war, and to collect footage of the war which were scattered in different parts of the world. She also gave importance to making short length documentary films on the people who were involved in the war. She emphasised the need for disseminating information through the internet and preserve all the documents at the Liberation War Museum.
The organisers will screen the documentaries ‘Borrowed Pride’ today at 3:00pm, ‘Verdict of Germany Auschwitz’ at 3:30pm, ‘Genocide in 1971 – Makalkandi’ at 5:30pm and ’71: In Frame and Out of Frame’ at 6:00p.
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