Four Bd films to charm Canadian cinegoers

Four Bangladeshi films have been selected to be premiered at the 6th Toronto International Film Festival of South Asia. The prestigious festival, scheduled to start from 11th of May, will screen more than one hundred films of fifteen languages from the Asian countries.

Four full-fledged Bangladeshi films have been invited to be screened at the event. The films are Fakhrul Abedin Khan's 'Bhubon Majhi', Abdullah Mohammad Saad's 'Live From Dhaka', 'Matir Projar Deshe' directed by Bijon Imtiaj and Ashraf Shishir's 'Gopon'.

Fakhrul Arefeen Khan's 'Bhuban Majhi' is based on the life of a true freedom fighter. The government-funded film has been helmed by director Fakhrul Areefen Khan, while Kolkata's Parambrata Chatterjee plays the role of a spiritual singer Nahir, who is inspired by a young lady named Farida, played by Aparna Ghosh, to join the struggle of 1971 Liberation War.

 "Live from Dhaka," is the debut film of 31-year-old Abdullah Mohammad Saad that revolves around the character of physically handicapped Sazzad, who has just lost all his money in a recent stock market crash.

Shot in grainy black and white, and featuring a powerful performance by actor Mostafa Monwar in the role of Sazzad, Live from Dhaka paints a riveting and complex portrait of a man pushed to his very extreme and his struggle between morality and the instinct for self-preservation.

Matir Projar Deshe stars Jayanta Chattopadhyay, Rokeya Prachi, Mahmudur Aninda, Sheuli Aktar, Monir Ahmed Shakil and Chinmoyi Gupta in different roles.

Set in rural Bangladesh, it features the story of 10-year-old Jamal and his mother. The story shows how the local school authorities refuse to take Jamal in because his mother was once a prostitute.

Ashraf Shishir's second film 'Gopon-The Inner Sound' tells its story through double plot arrangements. In one there is a bereaved widower from underground politics and the meandering development of his only daughter. On the other side there is a famous writer suffering from dementia and the arrival of a failed film director in her life. Besides these films, a number of short films from Bangladesh and Kolkata have been chosen. The festival will drop the curtains on 22th May.