Festival in South India, exclusively screening Bangladeshi films, begins today

Scenes from “Ontorjatra” and “Third Person Singular Number” (right).

A festival of five feature films by four directors of Bangladesh begins in Hyderabad today in the first such event being hosted by a southern Indian city exclusively featuring movies from the neighbouring country.
The three-day festival, being organised by Annapurna International School of Film and Media, will showcase “Chitra Nadir Parey” and “Lalon” by Tanvir Mokammel, “Shadow of Life” by Murad Parvez, “Third Person Singular Number” by Mostafa Sarwar Farooki and “Ontorjatra” by Tareque and Catherine Masud.
For the festival, a message from Tanvir Mokammel has been recorded which will be shown before the festival.
“This is the first time that a film festival, exclusively screening Bangladeshi films, has been organised in any South Indian city,” Mokammel told The Daily Star over phone.
Mokammel said his message will contain a brief overview of the “new wave” of Bangladeshi cinema and introduction to his two movies to be screened at the festival.