‘A Childless Village’ to vie at Dhaka filmfest

Iranian film ‘A Childless Village’ is scheduled to vie at the Dhaka International Film Festival (DIFF) in Bangladesh.

The film directed by Reza Jamali will be screened at the 2023 edition of the event.

‘A Childless Village’ is about a filmmaker named Kazem who arrived in a remote village where no children have been born for a while and all the men there blame that on the women.

He tried to make a documentary on the sterility of the village’s women, but the women stole the film and burnt it in order to save their faces.

Two decades later and as the villagers have realized that the problem was on the men's side who were sterile, Kazem, with the help of his assistant, tries to film a number of interviews with these men in order to reveal the truth in a new film, but this turns out to be an impossible mission.

Since 1977, the DIFF has been promoting a healthy culture in the film industry in Bangladesh with the main theme of “Better Film, Better Audience, Better Society”.

Some 200 films from 60 countries compete at the DIFF in the following categories: Asian Competition Section, Retrospective, Bangladesh Panorama, Cinema of the World, Children’s Film, Short and Independent Film, Women Filmmakers Section, and Spiritual Films Section.

The festival’s website states the “DIFF is a bold expression of resistance against the decadence, vulgarity and cheap commercialism that pervades the mainstream Bangladesh film industry”.

The 2023 edition of the event will take place in the Bangladeshi capital from January 14 to 22.

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