Bangladesh Makes an Affect at Goa Pageant and Market

The burgeoning Bangladesh movie business made an impression at each South Asian movie market Movie Bazaar and the Worldwide Movie Pageant of India (IFFI), Goa.

Bangladesh function movie “Agantuk” (aka “The Stranger”) by Biplob Sarkar was named as unanimous winner of the Prasad DI award, conferred by the Movie Bazaar Recommends jury in Goa. In addition to Sarkar, there was a robust contingent from Bangladesh together with Abu Shahed Emon (“No Floor Beneath the Ft”), Bijon, who’s a part of the “Solo” staff that has scored CNC funding and Redoan Rony, head of streamer Chorki.

As well as, 4 Bangladeshi movies are chosen at IFFI. Noor Iman’s “A Home With No Identify,” produced by Emon, Akram Khan’s “A Story of Two Sisters” and Khandaker Sumon’s “Recollections of Gloomy Monsoons” all had their world premieres on the competition, whereas Gias Uddin Selim’s “Vice and Advantage” had its worldwide premiere. Fashionable actor Jaya Ahsan, star of “A Story of Two Sisters,” who acts in each Indian and Bangladeshi movies, was half of a big movie cohort from Bangladesh attending IFFI.

“There was a choice of 4 function movies this yr. It’s a fairly uncommon case, which suggests there’s a excessive quantity of high quality tasks being made yearly. With the rise of OTT [streaming] and the Bangladeshi content material business I assume this is among the finest occasions in Bangladeshi cinema historical past,” Emon informed Selection.

“After COVID-19, everybody is raring to get new alternatives and due to this fact they’re collaborating in several movie labs, workshops and networking applications like Movie Bazaar. Greater than 10 delegates of producers, administrators, distributors and consumers have attended Movie Bazaar with numerous tasks within the coproduction market, viewing room and producer workshop. I believe in upcoming years it is going to develop much more in participation as there are much more fascinating tasks are arising.”