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A nine-day theatre festival began on Friday at the National Theatre Hall of the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in the city.
   Theatre group Samay Sangskritik Goshthi organised the festival to celebrate the 30th founding anniversary of the group.
   Ramendu Majumdar inaugurated the carnival, dedicated to the eminent playwright late Selim Al - Deen.
   The inaugural ceremony of the festival was followed by the presentation of Nimajjan by the Dhaka Theatre.
   The play has been scripted and directed by Selim Al Deen and Nasiruddin Yousuff respectively.
   With lyrical description, the playwright has reminded the audience that the civilisation, modern, medieval and ancient, are based on genocides of one race or religious group by the others.
   The director has very aptly visualised the idea on the stage. He has very successfully created narrative visual imagery using paintings and the effects of lightings.
   The choreography, done by Shimul Yousuff and Anisul Islam Hero, enriched the play.
   Shimul’s music also added emotion in creating the ambience of genocides.
   The organiser stages nine critically acclaimed plays by nine different theatre groups from home and abroad during the festival.
   Mayur Singhasan, scripted and directed by Mannan Hira and Shah Alam Dulal respectively, was staged on Saturday.
   Theatre group Anik from India will stage Punarijjiban today while Shikhandi Katha, Meraj Fakirer Ma, Deshdrohi, Kanjush, Bhager Manush will be staged on the following days.
   Everyday, show will begin at 6:30pm and tickets will be available at Sagar Publishers and Theatre Corner on Bailey Road, Coffee House at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy and Marmar at Aziz Super Market in Shahbagh.

A four-day film festival, jointly organised by the Goethe-Institut, Chalachitram and Zahir Raihan Film Society, will begin today at the auditorium of the German Cultural Centre in the city.
   The organisers will screen nine films of the noted German documentary filmmaker Harun Farocki during the festival. A discussion with the filmmaker will also be held at 6:00pm on February 12 at the same venue.
   The festival will begin with the screening of Inextinguishable Fire and Workers Leaving the Factory at 4:30pm.
   The film As You See will also be screened at 6:00pm on the inaugural day of the festival.
   Images of the World and the Inscriptions of War will be screened at 4:30pm and Videograms of a Revolution at 6:00pm on February 11.
   Still Life will be screened at 4:30pm and Prison Images at 6:00pm on February 12. On the concluding day of the festival, the organisers will screen War at a Distance at 4:30pm and Nothing Ventured at 6:00pm.

A compact disc of bhawaiya songs titled ‘Jora Moyna’, by AKM Mostafizur Rahman and Salma Mostafiz will be released today at 6:00pm at Shaukat Osman Auditorium of Central Public Library in Dhaka.
   Dr Mahfuzul Haque will be present as chief guest at the launching ceremony while the managing director of Prime Insurance Company, Ferdous Ara Chowdhury, banker ATM Hasanuzzaman and chief of the Nutrition and Biochemistry Department of ICDDR,B, MA Wahed will be present as special guests.
   Noted singer of bhawaiya songs Hafizur Rahamn will chair the function.
   The ceremony will be followed by a bhawaiya performance.