Mokammel’s “Swapnobhumi” invited to Mumbai film festival
The new year is set to keep acclaimed Bangladesh filmmaker Tanvir Mokammel a busy man.
His award-winning documentary "Swapnobhumi" (The Promised Land) has been invited to the 11th Mumbai Documentary Film Festival, scheduled to be held there from February 3 to 9.
Mokammel has also been invited to the prestigious festival and he might make it to the event.
Mumbai is just the start of Mokammel's annual tour of international festival circuit.
Besides attending festivals, the director, along with his editor Mahadeb Shil, is busy editing his next documentary “1971” on the Liberation War. The work is going in full swing and he hopes to finish the film by the end of March this year, the director told The Daily Star.
It may be recalled that Mokammel's previous documentary “Smriti Ekattor” (made in 1989) had run into trouble with the censor board and the film is yet to see the light of the day.
The fate of “Smriti Ekattor”, however, has not deterred the director from going ahead with his second documentary on the Liberation War as the political situation in Bangladesh has undergone a sea change from the days of military rule.
At the same time, he is preparing for his next feature film "Jibondhuli", set against the backdrop of the 1971 war. However, the director is yet to finalise the cast. The script of the film won a 10,000 Euro financial grant from the organisers of Rotterdam International Film Festival last year.
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