A festival of Bangladeshi films, the first of its kind organised in India, was recently held at the renowned Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), says a press release. Running from February 20-22, the festival featured a selection of films by some leading Bangladeshi filmmakers. The festival was organised by FTII in collaboration with the National Film Archives of India.
The festival opened with the screening of Tareque Masud's “Matir Moina”. Other films shown at the festival included Tanvir Mokammel's “Chitra Nadir Pare” and “Shapno Bhoomi”, Abu Sayeed's “Nirantor”, Shameem Akhtar's 'Ittihash Kanya”, and Tareque and Catherine Masud's “Muktir Gaan”. Filmmakers Tareque Masud, Catherine Masud, Tanvir Mokammel, and Abu Sayeed were present at the festival to introduce their films. Each screening was followed by an in-depth Q and A with the directors and discussion on various aspects of Bangladesh cinema, moderated by eminent Indian filmmaker Sayeed Mirza and FTII faculty member Gayatri Chatterjee. Also present at all the festival programmes as host and organiser was FTII Director Pankaj Rag.
The festival attendees included students and faculty of FTII as well as eminent Indian film personalities such as Indian National Archives founder PK Nair and renowned documentary filmmaker Anand Patwardhan.
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