The nameless protagonist wanders in the street to offer an empathetic hug to strangers after listening to their stories; trauma, depression, stress and anxiety characterize those stories to which the hero acts as an outlet. But how much moral capacity does he have to continue his quest?
Two guys are sitting by a river. Suddenly one starts to get a strange smell. A door to something surreal is opened.
The story revolves around Anish, a common man with a painter inside of him, his wife Amrita and a stranger Anish meets one day while searching for Yellow Roses.
Machineman is a sci-fi action film made in Bangladesh. This movie was released in 2007 during the Eid festival and was commercially successful. Starring: Manna, Moushumi, Apu Biswas, Danny Sidak.
Childhood friends Satakshi and Madhyama reunite at a celebration during Durga Puja. As the night progresses, their feelings for one another are revealed to us through words of the past and the future, taking the audience on a beautiful Ferris wheel ride of love, hopes, and dreams.
Dhimal, a scheduled tribe of North Bengal, is debarred by the British Empire.
At a time of ever increasing media access, anyone who wants to make a film should be able to make one. But for d/Deaf and disabled filmmakers Debopriya, Mijo and Anuja, this isn’t as straightforward. Each must negotiate with multiple barriers to articulate their creative vision. While documenting their stories, Shweta begins to reflect on lifelong creative collaborations with her disabled father, and a film about filmmaking emerges.
The film is a vivid record of a time when the country's one most important sector was pushed to gradual death. It is jute, ‘the golden fiber’ as it was once called, for it had fed millions in both farming and industrial sectors.
A documentation of Dhaka's midnight shenanigans, rendezvous and a bit of melancholia that spreads all around while we fall a sleep.
A story of Bangladesh’s liberation war of 1971. Where two doppelgängers encounter each other in the war camp. The film revolves around their friendship & journey after the war.
A paralyzed man and a deaf son both seriously affected by the war, lives a life dependent of each other while they both reminisce of their past .
Hridoypora (Heartbreaking) is a film about romance and the story of separation. This film is made by ignoring the life when the man with the feeling of love is lost from life.
Bilal lives with his blind parents who do not need light. In his dark house he plays hide-and-seek and teases his younger brother.
A Muslim man's crisis of identity in modern day India looked at through a darkly humorous lens.
This documentary, A Baul The Baul, unfolds polygonal aspects of the mysterious and mystic life of this religio-cultural sect deeply rooted in Bengal. The phenomenon of ever-increasing popularity of the Baul music and its influence on modern music are unplugged and demystified here. This film deals with their worldview, their music and their interaction with contemporary society. Various practitioners of the Baul music and philosophy like Gour Khyapa, Purna Das Baul, Kanai Das Baul, Brahmakhyapa (an urban Baul music band) and others uphold their understanding on this issue. Moreover, dynamics of the relation between the music and the philosophy in Baul life are discussed.
A film that revolves around three characters who are out exploring their marriage prospects with one of them documenting their travails. While Sayan and Gourab are assigned male at birth, Debalina, director of the film, is assigned female at birth. All three of them are looking for a same-gender partner, and the very suggestion of wanting to marry a same-gender partner drives people around them a into complete frenzy.
This film is about a psychological journey of a woman named Rubi; once she loved her husband devotedly but the feeling is long gone. Sitting beside her husband’s dead body, she doesn’t feel any grief or any other emotion whatsoever. She remembers her life with this man, and discovers that her once beloved husband died to her long before his actual demise.
Glimpses of the life of a gay Bangladeshi man as he comes to terms with his sexuality.
A confession from a filmmaker, who is not able to read books anymore. He tries to justify himself before the camera.
Two children play in the rain as the director watch from above in this tribute to Iranian maestro Abbas Kiarostami. The window blinds masterfully appear like the insides of one’s eyelids. Mahde's discontent with the colour his digital camera produces led him to shoot this in black and white like many of his other works. The film won the first prize in the Movie of My Life section at the 70th Locarno Film Festival.
