Entertainment Desk :
Director Akib Mahmud’s short film titled Ashlesha won the Best Experimental
Film award at the Independent Shorts
Awards in Los Angeles, USA.
Akib said, “I had to make this film through hard work and perseverance. Maybe that’s why the judges of the festivals like the film. I have already started thinking about new projects. These will inspire me to do new experiments.”
Ashlesha centers around the story of the fishermen in the char region of the River Meghna. The movie highlights how the money lenders exploit them and take half of their profit which leaves them penniless. These fishermen don’t get proper education and so they have to struggle hard just to make the ends meet. The Bengali short film has been nominated for the Best Inspirational Film at the
prestigious Cannes World Film Festival. Ashlesha bagged the best international film award at Voin Film festival, Pakistan, Best young talent award
at the 15th International Children’s Film Festival Bangladesh.
The movie got the official selection in several prestigious Film Festival like CineVoyage international Film Festival India, Noble International Film Festival, Global Youth Film Festival, among others.
