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A week-long film festival featuring children’s films from across the world will be held in Dhaka, beginning on January 28.
   The main attraction of the festival will be children’s participation from across the country, said the organisers.
   We have already invited more than 100 children along with their guardians to enjoy the festival and to attend the workshop and seminar on filmmaking.
   The Children’s Film Society Bangladesh will organise the festival, first of its kind, with the slogan Future in Frames.
   About 150 films –– feature, short, animation and documentary –– from 25 countries will be screened at the festival.
   The main venues of the festival will be Shaukat Osman Auditorium and Seminar Hall of the Central Public Library, Goethe-Institut, Iranian Cultural Centre and Russian Culture Centre.
   Four shows will be screened everyday, beginning at 11:00am.
   The organisers will also arrange a day-long workshop for the children at the Seminar Hall of the Public Library on February 1.
   Mostafa Monwar, Zafar Iqbal, Ketherine Masud and Toukir Ahmed will conduct the workshop based on filmmaking.
   Besides, a day-long seminar on children’s film will be held at the same venue on next day.
   The day’s session will begin with Badal Rahman who will read out a key note paper highlighting the problems of making films for the children while Anupom Hayat will present another paper high- lighting the role of the
   government in making children’s film.
   He will present the paper at the last session of the day.
   We will screen all the children’s films made in Bangladesh. Besides, films from Germany, Russia, Iran and India will be screened under special category, said the organisers.
   On the occasion, a two–member advisory committee led by Mostafa Monwar has been formed to make the festival a success.

The next James Bond film is to be called Quantum of Solace, producers have confirmed.
   The title is taken from one of a collection of short stories published by 007 creator Ian Fleming in 1960.
   Producer Michael Wilson said the film would have ‘twice as much action’ as 2006’s Casino Royale, which saw Daniel Craig debut as the iconic secret agent.
   The next outing, previously known as Bond 22, is partly being shot at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire.
   At a press conference at the facility, reporters were shown a minute of footage from the new film, including Bond swinging on a rope after an explosion at an art gallery in Siena, Italy.
   Another scene showed him meeting M - played by Dame Judi Dench - outside in the snow.
   Filming on the movie has been taking place at Pinewood since November. Craig said the cryptic title referenced how Bond’s heart had been broken at the end of Casino Royale.
   Craig said the new film would follow 007 as he goes out ‘to find the guy who’s responsible’.
   Olga Kurylenko, who plays Bond girl Camille in the film, said that she has yet to film any scenes, but was working hard preparing for her role.
   ‘I’m doing weapons training and body flight training for aerial scenes and stunt work for fighting,’ she said.
   ‘This girl is going to kick ass. She’s on her own mission and she’s driven by revenge.’