Since then, the organization’s main mission remains the same, which is to create viewers of good movies with adequate taste.

It took three decades of consistent performance and unremitting handwork of hundreds of film enthusiasts to reach DUFS’s present glorious position.

World Film Manifestation Programme (WFMP) is one of its successful programs with over 400 movie screenings.

La Pointe Courte (1955), Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962), Le Bonheur (1965), Vegabond (1985) The program was started as a "viewer's forum" in June 1998 at the Goethe-Institute Dhaka.

Some issues of the publication included articles about films from Latin America and those from the Far East.

Appreciation courses are designed to guide the standard film viewer towards a more insightful understanding of cinema.

The festival is held every February month in remembrance of the martyrs of the Bengali Language Movement.

The highest grossing Bangladeshi film of all time Priyotoma was screened at the 22nd Amar Bashar Chalachitra festival under the theme of Amar Bhashar Chalachitra Utshab 1430 organized by the Dhaka University Film Society on 14 February 2024 on the occasion of Valentine's Day.

DUFS has recently organized the 11th edition of IIUSFF, in association with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

DUFS and Actionaid Bangladesh jointly organized the event to promote cultural diversity and peace.

Boichitre Jibon (Diversity is Life) is jointly organized by Dhaka University Film Society and National Disabled Forum, in association with Sightsavers in 2010 and 2013.

After an initial screening process, viva-voce (oral interview) is held to select the few successful (around forty) candidates for admission.

The current president is Teertha Protim Das; the general secretary is Nisath Salsabil Rob.