Best
Fiction Abel’s Black Dog, 30’ Dir: Mariana Cengel-Solcanska,
Country: Slovakia
Best
Documentary
A Sunday in Pripyat 26’ Dir: Blandine Huk & Frederic
Cousseau, Country: France
Tareque
Sharier Independent Shorts
Stay in Touch 7’.04” Saiful Islam Jarnal, Country:
Bangladesh
The
Festival
The
International Short & Independent Film Festival began
twenty years back, in 1988. This is an unique film festival
in South Asia arranged every two years by Bangladesh Short
Film Forum, an organization of independent film-makers and
cine-activists. The festival welcomes films of artistic merit
and creative expression with a commitment to social and cultural
harmony, secularism, sustainable ecology and the rights of
women, children and minority communities.
The Objectives of the Festival :
The International Short & Independent Film Festival was
launched to facilitate meaningful and artistic cinematic expression
and to exchange views and ideas, and to share the creative
energy of film-makers and cine-activists from Asia and other
parts of the world. The festival aims at creating a platform
for solidarity and better understanding among the independent
creative film-makers of different countries irrespective of
nationality, creed, colour and gender.
Another objective of the festival is to open the doors of
free length fiction, documentary, animation and experimental
films of the world for the local audience. To encourage young
and enthusiastic film-makers in Bangladesh, a new section
titled 'Independent Shorts' has been introduced from the 8th
festival. Films made in any format (including films made with
mobile phones) with their duration time not exceeding 10 minutes.
This section of the festival will be open to Bangladeshi film-makers
only.
The
Slogan of the Festival :
'Free Cinema, Free Expression.'
