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DIMAPUR, April 11
The two-day long documentary film festival on art and culture in Dimapur concluded here in Unity College’s auditorium with the screening of Kinshasa Symphony. The event was organized by the Film and Cultural Society of North East in collaboration with the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts and supported by Unity College of Dimapur.Nearly 300 students and teachers watched documentaries on music, customs, art and culture on the final day. Among those present as special invitees were filmmaker Yapangnaro Longkumer, whose documentary Mimi's Dairy on the honey keepers of Kiphire district was among the films that were screened.
Interacting with the students, the filmmaker highlighted the fast-disappearing traditions of the Naga people and called for their preservation, a note from the organizers, the college, informed in a press release issued on Saturday.
The festival screened documentaries on arts, music, including western classical, and couple of films focusing on culture of northeast India.
Almost 400 students from different schools and colleges of Dimapur attended the program on the opening day which started with the screening of a documentary Brush with Life on the versatile artist Satish Gujral. The film was directed by Sujata Kulshrestha.
Nagaland is hosting the fifth leg of the festival which will be touring all the eight states of the Northeast after being inaugurated in Jorhat on February 10 by Jahnu Barua and V B Pyarelal, Additional Chief Secretary of the Government of Assam.
The festival is aimed at sensitizing the youth, especially students, on the works of art and culture that have made human civilization richer.
Among those supporting the festivals are Polish Film Institute, Danish Film Institute, Goethe Institute, Films Division of the Government of India and Dalmia Bharat Cement, the organizers informed.
