Art & Culture

Cultural Correspondent Three-day Jibanananda Festival marking the 120th birth anniversary of poet Jibanananda Das concluded at Brojomohun College in Barishal city on Monday. Uttoron Sangskritik Sangathan, a Brojomohun College-based cultural-literary organisation, organised the festival. Principal of BM College professor Shafiqur Rahman Shikdar inaugurated the festival, which is featuring 30 stalls displaying books and traditional handicraft […]

Cultural Correspondent French music ensemble Son Ar Mein Consort and Chattogram-based Asian University for Women Choir entertained music lovers in Chattogram on Saturday at a programme held at the auditorium of Chittagong Club Limited. Alliance Francaise Chittagong organised the event in collaboration with Chittagong Club Limited. The programme was supported by Embassy of France and […]

Iranian film-maker Saleh Kashfi wins the Cinemascope Best Film award for his 10-minute-long short film, titled ‘A Pair of Horns on a Female Homo Sapiens,’ and Swedish film ‘Handsfree,’ wins the ULAB Young Filmmaker Award. Faruque Ratul Dhaka International Mobile Film Festival (DIMFF) 2019, an initiative by University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB), ended on […]

Cultural Correspondent Nadav Lapid’s ‘Synonyms’, an anarchic story about an Israeli who tries to suppress his origins after moving to Paris, won the Berlin Film Festival’s coveted Golden Bear award on Saturday. The film, a faintly comedic, semi-autobiographical study of identity and the ambivalence of national belonging, tells the story of Yoav, played by newcomer […]

Cultural Correspondent A special painting exhibition of children highlighting the Language Movement, Liberation War and local history and tradition will begin at the Bangla Academy on Monday, reports UNB. The exhibition is going to be organized as part of the month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair being held on the academy premises and at nearby Suhrawardy […]

Cultural Correspondent Great news for Jaya Ahsan’s expatriate fans who live in the Middle East. ‘Debi’ will be released in there later this month. The film will be released at 16 theatres in the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Oman from February 21. ‘Debi’ will be screened at Al-Law Mall in Al Qaeda City, in […]