About Us

Introduction

Hill Film Festival is held in Rangamati, Chittagong Hill Tracts and in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. The festival focuses mainly the indigenous language films of Bangladesh, though it is open to films of every languages and forms. The festival was incepted in 2014 and the 6th edition of the festival is scheduled to be happened on December 26-28, 2024. It is held in every two years.

Background

Though filmmaking in the indigenous languages started in the 1990s in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), Bangladesh, the numbers are not very high and yet no films get theatrical release in the country. There is no regular screening platform for those films and those films are not well introduced both in the national and global arena. In this context, to be a platform for those films and to introduce them to the larger audiences, Hill Film Festival was incepted in 2014 in Rangamati. Later, the festival has shifted it’s focus to the indigenous language films of the country where the scenario is same. However, the festival also caters films from the diverse perspectives irrespective of genre, format, style, language and experimentation. 

FOUNDERS

Adit Dewan
Promod Chakma
Turin Tanchangya

6th hill film festival Team

Festival Director
Adit Dewan
Programmer
Fazle Hasan Shishir, Santua Tripura
Associate Programmer
Parbon Mazhar, Sheram Chingkhei
Programming Assistant
Ezazul Haque Fahim, Sraboni Rangsa
Publication & Documentation
Paddmini Chakma, Snighdha Sultana
Audio Visual Content
Abdul Ahad
Research
Bodrul Amin Piash, Sujalo Chakma
Festival Coordinator
Sathirtha Dewan