‘NEW FILMS, NEW FILMMAKERS’

‘Dukhiar Kuthi’ to be screened today

Nurul Alam Atique, Rajibul Hossain to attend ‘Cinema Five Alap’ as discussants

A short film titled ‘Dukhiar Kuthi’ (The Land of Sadness), an adaptation from Amiya Bhushan Majumda’s literary work, has been selected for the screening in the month of May as a part of the yearlong film festival titled ‘New Films, New Filmmakers’. The film will be screened today at 7pm at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA), Segun Bagicha in the capital. Directed by Habibur Rahman, the film is set against the backdrop of the autocratic regime in unrest Bangladesh in the late 1980s. This was the time when East Germany opens the wall and people are migrating. In the story of the film, Kakru is a young Hindu peasant from a small peasant family in a very rural area of Bangladesh. A highway road is going to be constructed through the land of his family. Kakru and his Muslim peasant friend Matalu make a quick insurgency against the land occupier. But finally, they cannot resist the shattering development. It makes massive changes in the personal and social life of the villagers. The circle of hunger is rolling on and a year is crossed through a flashback of a migrating peasant.Autocracy makes shattering development, that changes their village, their life, the inner dynamics of the family, forced them to migrate. After that the land becomes ‘The Land of Sadness’. The festival is being organised jointly by Moviyana Film Society and BSA for the second time.
The jury of the film festival have selected five films in two categories from the submitted films between May 1 to May 10. Among the films, four are short films and one is documentary film. The selected short films ‘Come From Bidesh’ directed by Yasin Rahman, ‘Amolnama’ by Rakib Khan Akash, ‘Maa’ by Mohammad Forhad Limon Chowdhury and documentary film ‘Gotipot’ by Mridul Mamun will be screened today at 3pm at the auditorium of National Art Plaza of BSA. After the screening of the films, the other segment titled ‘Cinema Five Alap’, which has been added to the second edition of the year-long festival, will be held today at 5pm.
With the subject ‘Swadhin Manush, Swadhin Chalachitra ebong Tarunyer Day’, filmmakers Nurul Alam Atique and Rajibul Hossain will attend the event as discussants.

NEW FILMS, NEW FILMMAKERS

Dukhiar Kuthi to be screened today

Nurul Alam Atique, Rajibul Hossain to attend Cinema Five Alap as discussants

A short film titled Dukhiar Kuthi (The Land of Sadness), an adaptation from Amiya Bhushan Majumdas literary work, has been selected for the screening in the month of May as a part of the yearlong film festival titled New Films, New Filmmakers. The film will be screened today at 7pm at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA), Segun Bagicha in the capital. Directed by Habibur Rahman, the film is set against the backdrop of the autocratic regime in unrest Bangladesh in the late 1980s. This was the time when East Germany opens the wall and people are migrating. In the story of the film, Kakru is a young Hindu peasant from a small peasant family in a very rural area of Bangladesh. A highway road is going to be constructed through the land of his family. Kakru and his Muslim peasant friend Matalu make a quick insurgency against the land occupier. But finally, they cannot resist the shattering development. It makes massive changes in the personal and social life of the villagers. The circle of hunger is rolling on and a year is crossed through a flashback of a migrating peasant.Autocracy makes shattering development, that changes their village, their life, the inner dynamics of the family, forced them to migrate. After that the land becomes The Land of Sadness. The festival is being organised jointly by Moviyana Film Society and BSA for the second time. The jury of the film festival have selected five films in two categories from the submitted films between May 1 to May 10. Among the films, four are short films and one is documentary film. The selected short films Come From Bidesh directed by Yasin Rahman, Amolnama by Rakib Khan Akash, Maa by Mohammad Forhad Limon Chowdhury and documentary film Gotipot by Mridul Mamun will be screened today at 3pm at the auditorium of National Art Plaza of BSA. After the screening of the films, the other segment titled Cinema Five Alap, which has been added to the second edition of the year-long festival, will be held today at 5pm. With the subject Swadhin Manush, Swadhin Chalachitra ebong Tarunyer Day, filmmakers Nurul Alam Atique and Rajibul Hossain will attend the event as discussants.