The three-day long sixth Hill Film Festival organised by the Hill Film Festival concluded at Uddyog Resource Centre and Shilpakala Academy in Rangamati on Saturday.
The festival showcased a diverse range of cinematic voices from across the globe, with a particular focus on Indigenous languages from the Chittagong Hill Tracts and plain lands of Bangladesh.
Adit Dewan was the festival director while Satirtha Dewan was the festival coordinator.
This edition received submissions from across the globe, with 60 films submitted from 14 countries, including Bangladesh, Iran, Turkey, the United States, France, India, Finland, South Korea, Japan, South Africa, Vietnam, and Kyrgyzstan. 聽
A total of 37 films from 12 countries in 15 languages have been selected in seven competitive categories including feature fiction, feature documentary, short fiction, short documentary, student, vlog, and experimental.
The festival also featured three curated sections titled Indigenous Mirror, Whispers From The Next Door, and Hill Film Festival Retrospective, along with special screenings and artist talks.
Filmmakers including, Nurul Alam Atique and Suvashis Chakma, participated in an interactive talk series under the topic titled 鈥榃hy Do We Make Film?鈥� at Uddyog Resource Centre on Saturday. 聽
The festival was inaugurated on Thursday.
The festival鈥檚 Dhaka phase will be held at Shala: Neighbourhood Art Space and Drik on January 2-5, 2025, said Satirtha Dewan. 聽