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Rubaiyat Hossain’s ‘The Difficult Bride’ Selected for TIFF 2026

Bangladeshi filmmaker Rubaiyat Hossain’s latest feature, The Difficult Bride, has been officially selected for the 51st Toronto International Film Festival, where it will be presented in the Centrepiece programme as a North American premiere. The festival will run from September 10 to 20, 2026. The selection follows the film’s inclusion in the Orizzonti competition at the upcoming 83rd Venice International Film Festival. Directed by Hossain, the 87-minute psychological horror film is an international co-production involving France, Bangladesh, Portugal, Norway and Germany. Set in contemporary Dhaka, the film follows a bride-to-be preparing for

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‘Mukh O Mukhosh’ at 70: The Birth of Modern Bangladeshi Cinema

Bangladesh marks 70 years today since the release of Mukh O Mukhosh, the film widely regarded as the starting point of the country’s organised feature-film industry. Directed by Abdul Jabbar Khan, it premiered at Roopmahal Cinema Hall in Dhaka on 3 August 1956. The opening show was inaugurated by Sher-e-Bangla A. K. Fazlul Huq, who was then Governor of East Pakistan. Produced under the banner of Iqbal Films, Mukh O Mukhosh was the first full-length Bengali-language sound feature made in East Pakistan, the territory that later became Bangladesh. Its importance lies

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Bangladesh Reaches Venice Milestone with ‍‍`The Difficult Bride‍‍`

Bangladeshi cinema has achieved a historic milestone as writer, director and producer Rubaiyat Hossain's fourth feature film, The Difficult Bride, has been selected for the Horizons (Orizzonti) Competition at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival. The selection marks the first time a Bangladeshi feature film has been included in an official competition section at the Venice Film Festival, one of the world's most prestigious cinematic events. The festival's 83rd edition will take place in Venice, Italy, from September 2 to 12, where The Difficult Bride will have its world premiere. Founded in 1932,

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Remembering Djibril Diop Mambéty, the Rebel Poet of African Cinema

Today marks the twenty-eighth anniversary of the death of Djibril Diop Mambéty, the Senegalese filmmaker whose formally daring body of work remains central to the history of African cinema. Mambéty died from lung cancer in a Paris hospital on July 23, 1998. He was 53 years old. Born in Colobane, Dakar, in 1945, Mambéty first trained as an actor and worked at Dakar’s Daniel Sorano National Theatre. Although he had theatrical training, he received no formal education in filmmaking and taught himself cinema. His early films, Contras’ City and Badou Boy,

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From Movieola to Digital: Sameer Ahmed’s Journey
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From Movieola to Digital: Sameer Ahmed’s Journey

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Bangladeshi Cinema: What Does It Say About the Subalterns
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Bangladeshi Cinema: What Does It Say About the Subalterns

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Light, Symmetry, and Obsession in Stanley Kubrick’s Films
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Light, Symmetry, and Obsession in Stanley Kubrick’s Films

Stanley Kubrick would have turned 98 this July 26, yet his visual choices remain strikingly contemporary. The first film I
Bergman’s Wild Strawberries and the Burden of Memory
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Bergman’s Wild Strawberries and the Burden of Memory

Ingmar Bergman’s film Wild Strawberries is one of the finest classical examples of psychoanalytic cinema. Ingmar Bergman was deeply

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Sameer Ahmed is one of Bangladesh’s most accomplished filmmakers and editors, with a career spanning cinema, television, and advertising. A graduate of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune, where he specialized in Film Editing, he has directed and edited numerous feature films, television dramas, and commercials for leading organizations such as Airtel, Unilever, and BBC World Service Trust. His acclaimed work on Guerrilla (2011) earned him the Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Editing. He founded Gao Productions in 2006 and now teaches at Jagannath University, mentoring ' ...

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Rubaiyat Hossain’s ‘The Difficult Bride’ Selected for TIFF 2026

Rubaiyat Hossain’s ‘The Difficult Bride’ Selected for TIFF 2026

Bangladeshi filmmaker Rubaiyat Hossain’s latest feature, The Difficult Bride, has been officially selected for the 51st Toronto International Film Festival, where it will be presented in the Centrepiece programme as a North American premiere. The festival will run from September 10 to 20, 2026. The selection follows the film’s inclusion in the Orizzonti competition at the upcoming 83rd Venice International Film Festival. Directed by Hossain, the 87-minute psychological horror film is an international co-production involving France, Bangladesh, Portugal, Norway and Germany. Set in contemporary Dhaka, the film follows a bride-to-be preparing for ' ...

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‘Mukh O Mukhosh’ at 70: The Birth of Modern Bangladeshi Cinema

‘Mukh O Mukhosh’ at 70: The Birth of Modern Bangladeshi Cinema

Bangladesh marks 70 years today since the release of Mukh O Mukhosh, the film widely regarded as the starting point of the country’s organised feature-film industry. Directed by Abdul Jabbar Khan, it premiered at Roopmahal Cinema Hall in Dhaka on 3 August 1956. The opening show was inaugurated by Sher-e-Bangla A. K. Fazlul Huq, who was then Governor of East Pakistan. Produced under the banner of Iqbal Films, Mukh O Mukhosh was the first full-length Bengali-language sound feature made in East Pakistan, the territory that later became Bangladesh. Its importance lies ' ...

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“The child is grown, the dream is gone.” The line is from Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb,” on The Wall. I have been thinking about it since watching Spider-Man: Brand New Day, because Spider-Man has become one of the ways I measure time. I remember part of my childhood through a red-and-blue suit moving across a computer screen. I first watched Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man around 2007. The details surrounding that day have blurred; the image has not. Tobey Maguire’s Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive spider and discovered that his ordinary ' ...

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Christopher Nolan remains one of the few contemporary directors whose name alone possesses the pull of a public event. A new release does not simply debut; it incites speculation, critical debate, and fierce audience loyalty long before the initial teaser has finished its first run. This identity as a theatrical essentialist drives his latest feature, The Odyssey (2026). Released on July 17, the film became the first feature shot entirely with IMAX film cameras, representing the most ambitious expression yet of Nolan’s commitment to large-format theatrical exhibition. From Following ' ...

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