Bangladeshi submissions for the Oscar
List of Bangladeshi submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
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- DirectorTareque MasudStarsNurul Islam BabluRussell FaraziJayanto ChattopadhyayA family must come to grips with its culture, its faith, and the brutal political changes entering its small-town world.
- DirectorHumayun AhmedStarsMeher Afroz ShaonRiazSwadhin KhosruTwelve people are passengers on board.The boatmen are taking them to safety, far away from the fierce clutches of war. All the people on board are devastated by the horrors of war. As the story advances, different events unravel.
- DirectorAbu SayeedStarsShabnurIlias KanchanAmirul Haque ChowdhuryA lower-middle class family in Bangladesh's capital city of Dhaka is going through hard times. Their father has gone blind and can no longer work, and most of the family's money has been wasted on their unemployed son Hiru, who refuses to work. All the family's problems fall on the shoulder of their beautiful daughter Tithi, who works as a prostitute to help the family. The film is a fairly non-judgmental look at the lives of Tithi, her family and the people she comes in contact with through her job.
- DirectorGolam Rabbany BiplobStarsMahmuduzzaman BabuRokeya PrachyFazlur Rahman BabuA poor villager finds some high priced foreign notes. For exchanging notes easily, he secretly tells his friend. They both trying to get the money & change their poor condition.
- DirectorEnamul Karim NirjharStarsSathi YasminHumayun FaridiTariq Anam KhanMr. Rafiq is given an option to develop the ancestral property by a privet developer agent. The house carries the style of typical historic buildings of old Dhaka; which are being pushed aside by urban modernization. With the decision hanging, Ruba, his daughter, leaves her husband in the US and returns to Dhaka. The cause being her husband's excessive misbehave. Ruba tries to find peace in her memory soaked old home but could not as the decision to reconstruct the property is discussed and debated over and over again. Another character, Soleman, obedient servant of Mr. Rafiq becomes irritating to Ruba since he has a rivalry with the local power holders. As Ruba seeks her memories in the home, she occasionally watches a man on a neighboring flat. The man notices this. With the man's efforts they finally get to be friends. But the orthodox mindset of the father desperately looks for ways to stop the developing relationship or perhaps a new hope for Ruba. The story ends with a pathetic turn of events; just like the title AHA!; (what a pity!) exemplifying the enigmatic sorrow wrapped with the old infrastructure of old Dhaka even today.
- DirectorGolam Rabbany BiplobStarsJayanto ChattopadhyayFazlur Rahman BabuFiroj Khan DollarA political fable in which a village musician gets swept up in the market economy of big city Dhaka.
- DirectorMostofa Sarwar FarookiStarsNusrat Imrose TishaMosharraf KarimRashed Uddin Ahmed TopuA woman breaks with traditional Muslim culture by living with her boyfriend before getting married, but when the relationship ends, she must face the harsh consequences of being an outcast in her community.
- DirectorHumayun AhmedStarsMamunTariq Anam KhanMunmun AhmedStory of a teenage boy who is hired by a colonial era landlord to entertain him until the annual flood is over.
- DirectorMostofa Sarwar FarookiStarsShahir Huda RumiChanchal ChowdhuryNusrat Imrose TishaAs a leader of the local community, Chairman Amin bans every kind of image in his water-locked village in rural Bangladesh. He even goes on to claim that imagination is also sinful since it gives one the license to infiltrate into any prohibited territory. But change is a desperate wind that is difficult to resist by shutting the window. The tension between this traditional window and modern wind grows to such an extent that it starts to leave a ripple effect on the lives of a group of typically colorful, eccentric, and emotional people living in that village. But at the very end of the film, Television, which he hated so much, comes to the rescue and helps Chairman Amin reach a transcendental state where he and his God are unified. A new twist to the story makes him embrace IMAGE and IMAGINATION
- DirectorKhalid Mahmood MithuStarsMasud Ali KhanAnisMita ChowdhuryKibitz, who dreams of working for children welfare, is torn between adopting a child and being a spouse. She learns from an artist and philosopher that village children living in one room with their whole families, sometimes witness their parents having sex in the dark. They are traumatized. A photographer falls in love with Kibitz, but she is already engaged. When her cousins wife dies, Jabot takes care of the little orphan Pa rash, who rediscovers his mother in Kibitz. Kibitz marries and moves away, Pa rash is heart-broken. She soon discovers that she is unable to bear children, Kibitz returns to her parents and to Pa rash. The photographer approaches her again but so does her husband.
- DirectorAbu Shahed EmonStarsMosharraf KarimTauquir AhmedMousumi HamidJust as Moses was found in the river Nile, an infant is rescued from a river, and adopted by Miraj, Karim and Sajib in turns over the years, only to be abandoned at the various stages of his life. From innocence to becoming a gangster, the unpredictable currents of Jalal's journey prove that he is truly a child of the river.
- DirectorTauquir AhmedStarsShahiduzzaman SelimAshraful TusharMosharraf KarimThe coffin of an expatriate worker with manipulated identity intense the identity crisis when another person's corpse is found inside.
- DirectorAkram KhanStarsJaya AhsanAzad Abul KalamMamunur RashidBased on 1947's book 'Ekoi Namer Golpo' by Hasan azizul Haque.
- DirectorMostofa Sarwar FarookiStarsIrrfan KhanNusrat Imrose TishaParno MittraA story surrounding a person named Javed Hasan and about his family, love, fallout and reunion.
- DirectorNasiruddin YousuffStarsAlamgir KabirDilruba Hossain DoyelHeera ChowdhuryA 40 year old painter, who lives in a wooden and bamboo house on stilts in the middle of a polluted lake on the outskirts of Dhaka City. Alpha's house serves as his painting. Dogs, roosters and birds also share the space with him. There are many moments when he feels a oneness with nature and with the birds and animals that surround him. He also feels deeply drawn to 'an androgynous' male-female identity. Alpha has neighbors in the nearby slum with whom he has close interaction.
- DirectorAbdul Qaiyum LeonTanvir AhsanSaleh Sobhan AuneemStarsMostafizur Noor ImranShah YeanurFazlur Rahman BabuEleven emerging Bangladeshi filmmakers present a collection of gritty shorts centered on the capital city and the people living in its margins.