Samia Zaman's film 'Akash Kata Dure' to screen

Samia Zaman's film 'Akash Kata Dure' produced by Impress Telefilms has been taken a place among 100 movies in seven categories of the International Oriental Film Festival in Geneva 2014 competition.

The International Oriental Film Festival of Geneva is supported by the city of Geneva’ department for culture and other significant partners. This year, the Festival celebrates its 9th edition.

The "FIFOG" association in partnership with other organizations that promote cinema, cultural dialogue and cultural diversity leads its organization. The event will be held between 3rd April and 14th 2014, in several venues that include the Cinemas of “Grütli”, Versoix, Lausanne and neighbouring France.

The 2014 edition will host around 100 movies, including Bangladeshi movies of a wide range of genres that originate from Eastern countries as well as Western countries. These movies are meant to showcase high quality and tackle human values, while being thought-provocative.

Samia Zaman's film 'Akash Kata Dure' produced by Impress Telefilms has been taken a place among 100 movies in seven categories of the competition.

The casts of the film 'Aksh Kata Dure'  are Faria, Mustafa prokash, Razzak, Misha Sawdagar and others.

Chennel I managing director Faridur Reza Sagar and the director of the film Samia Zaman will be the representatives from Bangladesh part.

The agenda thus reflects the association’s quest to pursue an understanding of Eastern societies and to question the cultural barriers between the East and the West, by means of exclusive fiction movies, documentaries and short movies.

The aim of FIFOG is also to spark a debate on various themes that pertain equally to the East as to the West and facilitate dialogue and understanding between the two. At the same time, FIFOG offers a platform for young film directors who can be Swiss and also from the East.

This year’s theme centres on: the body and whether it constitutes a fantastical object and/or whether it represents an expression of ideologies.

A series of movies will examine the relationship artists cultivate in relation to the body in cinema: fantastical object and / or space of ideological expression.

The movies will be grouped along the following categories: “The Orient in all its forms”; “Voices and visions of women”; “Voices and visions of America”; “Perspectives: East-West and Switzerland-East“; “Migration and Integration”; and “FI-FON-FAN” (the festival of children). In parallel, 5 prizes will be awarded and for each category; a Golden FIFOG and a Silver FIFOG will be presented respectively to winners and runners-up.