Best Feature Film, 2013
Television
As a leader of the local community, Chairman Amin bans every kind of image in his water-locked village in rural Bangladesh. He even claims that…
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Mostofa Sarwar Farooki is a contemporary Bangladeshi film director and screenwriter. He is also the pioneer of an avant-garde filmmakers’ movement called “Chabial”. Variety’s Jay Weissberg described Farooki as “a key exemplar of Bangladeshi new wave cinema movement”.
Farooki and Anisul Hoque have collaborated on feature films including Bachelor (2003), Made in Bangladesh (2007), Third Person Singular Number (2009), and Television (2012), which was selected as the Bangladeshi entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards®.
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