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Stories of Change, a documentary by Simon and Sara, will be screened at the four-day Jeevika: South Asia Livelihood Documentary Festival in Delhi, beginning on August 28.
   ‘The organisers have selected 17 documentaries out of 101 entries from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, United States, Iran and India for screening, said a press release.
   The film will be screened at Casuarina Hall, India Habitat Centre at 5:20pm on August 30. It is a testament to the resilience of human spirit, a real life documentary about the lives of five women, aged between 16 and 60, who come from different walks of life, profession, religion and regions of Bangladesh.
   Different yet common in their dreams, the women face challenges with confidence and belief in their dreams.
   The film is produced by Pathways of Women’s Empowerment Research Programme of the Development Studies Programme of BRAC University in collaboration with Beginning.
   South Asia Documentary Festival, which was started in 2003, aims at capturing the livelihood challenges
   faced by the rural and urban poor and bringing it to the attention of the public, media, judiciary, and most importantly policy makers.

A ten-day art exhibition of 12 artistes of Dhaka Art Circle began at the Bengal Shilpalaya at Dhanmondi in Dhaka on Friday.
   University Grants Commission chairman Professor Nazrul Islam inaugurated the show titled A Pageant of Forms and Figures at 6:00pm.
   Prothom Alo editor Matiur Rahman also attended the ceremony as special guest.
   ‘The organisation has stepped into its 15 anniversary this year. Marking the occasion we will honour five personalities through a ceremony on August 30,’ said the DAC president Samarjit Chowdhury.
   ‘We hold the first exhibition at Saju Art Gallery in 1995,’ he said.
   A total of 47 works of Abu Taher, Samarjit Roy Chowdhury, Mohammad Mohsin, Syed Enayet Hossain, Anwarul Huq, Rejaul Karim, Biren Shome, Motaleb Ali, Swapan Chowdhury, Abdus Shakoor, Chandra Shekhar Dey and Rafi Haque are on display at the show.
   The show will remain open for all from 12:00pm to 8:00pm till August 31.

The late, groundbreaking Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni will be honored at the upcoming Venice Film Festival with a documentary about his life, one of three nonfiction additions to the lineup.
    The official program for Venice was announced last week, but news about sidebar and industry screenings continues to trickle in as the festival’s opening approaches. Director Carlo di Carlo’s ‘Antonioni on Antonioni’ is based on interviews with Antonioni. One of the authors of Italy’s neo-realism movement and a Venice regular, Antonioni died last year at 94.
   ‘Venezia Crepa’ is a film about the overcrowding of Venice, its deteriorating architecture and its slow sink into the sea.