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A South Asian upper-middle-class daughter and her resilient house help navigate patriarchal norms and share struggles for autonomy and respect. In the clash between modernity and tradition, parallel lives of a daughter and her father as she navigates patriarchal norms.
The story of a helpless little girl and a prison that we unknowingly create in our own homes.
A short film inspired by true events in Bangladesh in front of Uttar Badda Government Primary School, 20th July of 2019.
Amena is searching for her son, Joynal, who was illegally trafficked by boat from Bangladesh to Malaysia. She teams up with trafficking survivor Abdus to retrace her son’s steps and shine light on the plight of parents who lost their children to a treacherous journey across the sea.
A room, a dawn and a self — each stroke of them are for a triangle.
When his sister marries her cousin and takes her new husband to Australia, Shaheen Dill-Riaz’s family begins to crack. Scattered across continents and shot over fourteen years, Past Is Present offers a sweeping domestic documentary of their attempt at reconciliation.
Set in the remains of a feudal palace as well as the first railway station in East Bengal, a traveler appears to return to his old home from places unknown.
Cinematic anthology on prostitution in Banisahnata Island, Bangladesh, where about 150 girls and women, all dependent on the sex trade inside a state licensed brothel on the bank of Pashur river, constantly battling with bad weather and Climate.
An elderly person wanted to tell something about a mysterious 'Magic Mirror', he claimed to have. But he died before he let his grandson know about the secret behind the 'Magic Mirror'.
A young man who works as a pizza delivery boy, realizes how his life leads to darkness from a path of light.
A writer, lost in creative and moral conflict, revisits buried traumas to break his writer’s block. As reality and dreams dissolve into one, he drifts through fragmented memories, unsure if he’s writing a story or living it.
Latika by Samsul Islam Shopon is set in a remote village on the banks of the river Chitra, Bangladesh, where families traditionally made a living by fishing with the aid of pet otters. Changes in climate and economic tides place immense pressure on this very old human-otter relationship.
Pathantula Pathantula!
A newspaper hawker struggles to make ends meet in a changing world.
A phone call that shakes a man's life.
People wake up every morning and start their day with a certain mindset. Then goes to office or work, there is a change in mentality, after returning home at night another change occurs. Same person, a thousand forms.
Bangladeshi Movie
Through interviews with women and recreations of a few of their stories, Beloved Wife brings out the continuing oppression of women in Bangladesh.
This documentary attempts to reveal the complex nature of contemporary Bangladesh society and the media, their interrelationship and how women in real life roles are mirrored by the media.
A farewell to the generation who grew up making 35mm movies. We watch a mock attempt to produce the last celluloid film in Bangladesh investigating the emotion and nostalgia for the good old days of celluloid cinema that have faded into obsolescence.
A documentary about liberation war of Bangladesh through painting.
A goddess of oblivion latent in stone figures—her job is to collect memories left behind by people from the past. The centuries-old goddess has no memory of her own. Devi once got bored of making people forget. He wants to collect some of his memories. So the goddess woke up. But, after waking up, he forgets the spell of oblivion, forgets the way back. Since then people forget to forget. People get tired of memory noise.
Most of the people in the world are “FREE” in a sense. But this freedom often comes with curtain invisible lines. What if we try to cross those lines?
The struggle of two individuals who are going through the same stage of life but in various circumstances is depicted in "Frames." The movie "Frames" depicts their daily decisions and the challenges they encounter.
"1422" is basically a symbolic representation on the context of the incident of women harassment in the TSC area of Dhaka University on April 14th,2015. The injustice with women is highlighted here. After committing such a heinous crime not even a single culprit has been brought to justice till date and justice has been repeatedly delayed. If this situation continues in the coming days there will be a lack of trust in the country and eventually our society will go through an unrest situation and also our law enforcement agencies will become a questionable element.
Troleriya Virus is a Bangladeshi Documentary movie.They Show this movie Corona virus effect
Ditiyo Suchona is a Bangladeshi TV Movie, Directed by Vicky Zahed. The starts of movie, Afran Nisho, Mehazabien, Intekhab Dinar, Arnab Antu, Ariyan Mehedi
Two guys are sitting by a river. Suddenly one starts to get a strange smell. A door to something surreal is opened.
Dhaka mid-21st century, where citizens receive solace digitally while being under the threat of a nuclear war.
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.
Two brothers came to Dhaka for some reason. They rent a old house in low price, They staying in that house, but they don't know that house is haunted, They can feel something is wrong in this house they have scary experience. They have nightmares and more.
'Baagh' explores the relevance of our wild animal instincts in a civilized society through the eyes of a folk actor who performs as the tiger for a living. Citizen advises the King to interview a tiger to know more. Mr. Jaiswal, the Goat, helmed in-charge of the project. Grand arrangements were planned but later the King orders Citizen to cut down the expense. Disappointed by the Tiger's meek responses the Goat resorts to torturous conduct and what follows from here is absolute mayhem.
The Modhurchora Refugee Camp, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, is the largest of its kind in the world, where millions of Rohingya refugees are confined. In this hopeless land, filled with the extreme despair of existential struggle, a ray of hope is lit by a lone native musician. Mohammad (Ahmed) Hossain, the 'Mandolin man' took refuge here with millions of Rohingya people due to fear, threats and massacres carried out by Myanmar military forces since August 2017. Hossain is a passionate musician. He used to compose songs that combined the everyday realities of his people and expressed their hopes through the voice of the accompanying Mandolin. Among the Rohingya Muslim community, the practice of music is prohibited by religion.
Guided by the words of a 92-year old veteran of the independence movement, the Kolkata-born director captures the fading vestiges and atmosphere of the city. A "monkey man" leads his monkey and the camera through the city streets, where the sound of spinning wheels can be heard coming from the alleyways, and the calls of street vendors and the performance of a voice mimic echo off the walls of old buildings. The film evokes the faint fragrance of Kolkata that lingers in these fragments of memory.
A free-flowing and intimate documentary on a maverick character from the Tollywood film industry, Kolkata, who has been in the doldrums because of serious addiction issues.
A boy named Siam Mehraf was cheated by his friend Ove. Becasue Ove has taken his lover by cheating on him. And there was a lot of quarrel between them about that. At one point Ove and some other people decided to kill Siam. What will he do? Will he die or survive? Will he take revenge on the wrong done to him? It is a story of a mixture of friendship, love and revenge.
On a stormy night, a needy man picks up a wallet full of money, only to find the owner observing him closely. To his surprise, the brooding owner begs him to keep the purse as he won’t be needing it anymore. It is revealed that the latter intends to commit suicide before the dawn. It's up to the poor, yet compassionate man to convince the grieving stranger to change his mind before it's too late.
In rural Bengal there is a community whose ancestral profession is to retrieve items lost by others from the bottom of ponds rivers, etc. They are called Duburi (diver). In this saga, we experience the journey of Duburi Sanatan when he comes to the village Gopaldanga to retrieve a missing earring of a widow Nilu. As Nilu collapses on her mental apocalypse and her deprived desires, Sanatan struggles for his breath and tries to survive this apparent surreal mental dystopia.
This documentary, produced by the Department of Film and Publications of Bangladesh is a collage of historical footage and depicts the epic journey of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Bangladesh.
This story is about a tea community’s mundane life where old chieftain Padmoluv , awaits his death and often reminisces the past controlled by colonial masters. School drop-out Chandan wants to elude the exploitation. However, young worker Sojoy, feels trapped but continues the grind. Every plant in the garden is a mute witness to the unsaid stories of their lives. In death, struggle and escape, these characters become archetype of entrapped tea garden worker in Bangladesh.
A photograph shows men staring out of a window. The stage is a bombed building. All the men wear military uniforms. Taken by a Magnum photographer in 1982, the image proves to be a teasing enigma. Arabic newspapers claim it as evidence of Bangladeshi fighters in the PLO (Fatah faction).
A Bangla comedy drama featuring Mosharraf Karim and Nusrat Imrose Tisha in lead roles.
In a country full of taboo and restrictions, two brothers in love, try to sort out their dynamic, as one of them wants to end it all and the other one wants to hold on to their relationship.
A one-take observational piece about the microcosm of Islamic practices and class segregation in Bangladesh's capital city Dhaka.
A short film about religious violence.
Glimpses of the life of a gay Bangladeshi man as he comes to terms with his sexuality.
This documentary explores personal cruising narratives from the LGBTQ community against visuals of Indian public spaces - toilets, cinema halls, parks, stations,malls and the like. Through the stories emerge the different facets and complexities of urban cruising - one of the most dominant ways of finding sexual/romantic partners for the LGBTQ community in India.
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.
A photographer is fascinated by the concept of time. He captures self-portraits with a large clock, trying to frame moments. During this journey, he discovers different ambiances and landscapes, gradually facing the mystery of time and trying to touch the enigmatic moments of life.
The film attempts to represent the struggles and aspirations of thousands of sex workers who constitute the DMSC (Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee or the the Durbar Women's Collaborative Committee), an initiative that emerged from the Shonagachi HIV/AIDS Intervention Project. A collective of men, women and transgendered sex workers, DMSC demands decriminalization of adult sex work and the right to form a trade union.
Bargi Elo Deshe portrays how an unexpected twist in the nawabi politics of undivided Bengal paved the way for the ruthless 'Bargis' to raid Bengal and mercilessly plunder its immense wealth. The film also attempts to measure the severity of the violence committed during the raids, and the impact it left on the Bengali society.
Kanai Chakraborty, a blind swimmer who successfully completed the world′s longest swimming competition in the Ganges River wants to demonstrate the power of disabled people by challenging sports.
Lakshmi is a little motherless girl. Her father Narayan goes to town, but before he leaves Lakshmi asks him to bring a red car for her. When he returns with what the daughter asked for, he is not ready for what he will see.
Directed by Sailajanand Mukherji, starring Jahor Ganguly, Dhiraj Bhattacharya, Naresh Mitra. In Bengali/subs.
A heart wrenching tale from the depth of the Bengali heart