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   Politics
Momen urges filmmakers to work on Rohingyas’ saddest stories
  Date : 29-03-2024

Staff Correspondent

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Saturday urged the filmmakers to make films patronizing the saddest stories of Rohingyas for further sensitizing world community about unimaginable atrocities that were committed against an ethnic group.

“An ethnic minority (Rohingya) that are the victims of hatred and enmity in a land of Buddhism (Myanmar) that believe in Ohinsho and Nirvana, self-purification where hatred and killing is unthinkable and against his teaching,” he said.

Dr Momen made the remark while inaugurating the 19th Dhaka International Film Festival organized by the Rainbow Film Society at NationalMuseum in the capital this afternoon.

 

Bangladesh is hosting over 1.1 million forcefully displaced Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar district and most of them arrived there since August 25, 2017 after a military crackdown by Myanmar, which the UN called a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing” and “genocide” by other rights groups.

Indian High Commissioner Vikram K Doraiswami spoke as the special guest at the inaugural ceremony of the festival that will screen 226 films from 73 countries.

The foreign minister said films are one of the most poignant and invasive instruments accessible to the humankind for venturing into the realms of the mind, of the memory and of the imaginations that define the “human story”.

“Films depict the art that transcends the boundaries of lives and livings and tell the stories which, often, we are even afraid to tell or look at,” he added.

 

Noting that the COVID-19 pandemic has inflicted untold sufferings for the artistes, he said the government has reopened the theaters under conditions of health and social-distancing restrictions for the sake of film industry.

Momen hoped that the festival would provide a boost to the country’s film industry, and inspire all the participating artistes to produce even better films in the future.

 

Lauding that this year festival is dedicated to the birth centenary

of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, he said,

“It is coming up at a cusp of time when we are crossing over from

within the ‘Mujib Year’ to the Golden Jubilee of our Independence.”

 

The minister recalled with the deepest respect that it was

Bangabandhu who had first tabled the bill in the provincial assembly

of erstwhile East Pakistan for the formation of Film Development

Corporation (FDC) in 1957.

 

This FDC eventually became BFDC after the independence of

Bangladesh -and till today holds and nurtures the principal foundation

of Bangladesh’s Film Industry, he said.

 

“I am also very happy that a biopic on the Father of the Nation,

documenting the life and works of the greatest Bengali of all times,

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s – a Bangladesh-India joint venture

production also commences ‘shooting’ this January, he said.



  
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