Culture Desk :
‘Saturday Afternoon’ the unreleased film of Mostofa Sarwar Farooki’s to be screened in two film festivals.
The film is going to participate in the upcoming 24th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) 2019 in Korea. Busan International Film Festival will continue from October 3 to October 12.
The festival will feature 303 films from 85 countries where 120 films will have world premieres and 20 will have international premieres.
Shonibar Bikel has been produced by Jaaz Multimedia and Chabial. Anna Katchko of Tandem Productions (Germany) serves as the co-producer. The film stars Zahid Hasan, Nusrat Imrose Tisha, popular Indian actor Parambrata Chatterjee and others.
According to an AFP report, the title of the film translates to ‘Saturday Afternoon’ and dramatises the July 2016 attack on an upmarket cafe by extremists, who killed 22 of their hostages, including 18 foreigners.
Earlier, Shonibar Bikel won the Russian Federation of Film Critics Jury Prize and the Kommersant Prize in the 41st Moscow International Film Festival in Russia, which was held from April 18 to April 25.
Mostofa Sarwar Farooki will fly to Busan for attending the festival.
Bangladesh Film Censor Board earlier banned the film’s release, both at home and abroad, after watching it twice on the grounds that the film will tarnish the country’s reputation.
‘Saturday Afternoon’ the unreleased film of Mostofa Sarwar Farooki’s to be screened in two film festivals.
The film is going to participate in the upcoming 24th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) 2019 in Korea. Busan International Film Festival will continue from October 3 to October 12.
The festival will feature 303 films from 85 countries where 120 films will have world premieres and 20 will have international premieres.
Shonibar Bikel has been produced by Jaaz Multimedia and Chabial. Anna Katchko of Tandem Productions (Germany) serves as the co-producer. The film stars Zahid Hasan, Nusrat Imrose Tisha, popular Indian actor Parambrata Chatterjee and others.
According to an AFP report, the title of the film translates to ‘Saturday Afternoon’ and dramatises the July 2016 attack on an upmarket cafe by extremists, who killed 22 of their hostages, including 18 foreigners.
Earlier, Shonibar Bikel won the Russian Federation of Film Critics Jury Prize and the Kommersant Prize in the 41st Moscow International Film Festival in Russia, which was held from April 18 to April 25.
Mostofa Sarwar Farooki will fly to Busan for attending the festival.
Bangladesh Film Censor Board earlier banned the film’s release, both at home and abroad, after watching it twice on the grounds that the film will tarnish the country’s reputation.
