The 10th edition of 'Liberation DocFest', a documentary festival on liberation and human rights, organized by the Liberation War Museum (LWM), began on Friday.

The inaugural ceremony of the festival was held at the LWM auditorium, where Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud was present as the chief guest.

The five-day festival, previously known as the International Festival of Docufilms on Liberation and Human Rights, has generated much interest among film lovers at home and abroad.

The 10th edition of Liberation DocFest features two different sections: the National Competition Section and the International Competition Section.

Over 2,100 films from 196 countries were submitted to the organizers, out of which 140 documentaries from 40 countries are scheduled to be screened at the festival.

Four exhibitions have been arranged daily in the main auditorium of the Liberation War Museum in the city’s Agargaon. In addition, selected images will be streamed online every day.

Like before, Cosmos Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Bangladeshi conglomerate Cosmos Group, has also been associated with this year’s festival.

The Jury members for the National Competition Section for this year’s festival are leading Bangladeshi filmmaker and German expatriate Shaheen Dil Riaz Ahmed, artist and art critic Mostafa Zaman and actress Bonya Mirza, while the jury for the International Competition consists Pakistani documentary filmmaker Ammar Aziz, Alex Lee, director of the New Zealand DockAge Documentary Festival, and Mita Suri of the Sheffield DocFest, the leading documentary festival in the UK.

This year's Liberation DocFest is set to conclude on March 15.