Farooki named festival jury at Kolkata and Kathmandu
As tumultuous discussion about his latest release “Doob” continues, director Mostofa Sarwar Farooki is shifting his focus momentarily, traveling to India and Nepal with the prestigious tag of a festival jury member.
Farooki has been named as a jury of the Competition on Indian Language Films at the 23rd Kolkata International Film Festival that begins November 10. He is joined by Italian director Italo Spinelli and Filipina actress Angeli Bayani, for the inaugural edition of this particular category at the festival. The other representation from Bangladesh at the festival is the Abu Sayeed-directed film “Ekjon Kobi'r Mrityu” which will premiere at the International Competition: Innovation in Moving Images category.
After that, Farooki will travel to Kathmandu on 'jury duty' at the Ekadeshma International Short Film Festival, Kathmandu which is being held from November 17-19 in the Nepalese capital. The other jury members of the Changing Perspective section of the festival are Paolo Bertolin and Manisha Koirala.
Mostofa Sarwar Farooki has been one of the most prominent faces of Bangladeshi cinema in the international film scene, and has previously served as a jury member for the Asia Pacific Screen Awards in 2015 and at the Busan Film Festival in South Korea and London's East End Film Festival in 2016. He is slated to begin the production of his next film, a thriller titled “Saturday Afternoon”, in mid-December.
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