Bangladeshi filmmaker Piplu R Khan’s feature film ‘Joya Aar Sharmin’ has achieved a major international recognition by winning the Best Feature Film Award at the 5th World Film Festival Kolkata. The film was honored with the prestigious Bimal Roy Golden Award at the festival. Another Bangladeshi production also received recognition at the event. Director Mokbul Chowdhury’s documentary film ‘Mamun: In Praise of Shadows’ earned a Jury Mention, receiving special appreciation from the jury in the documentary category. The six-day international festival was organized by the Eastern Regional Branch of the Federation of ' ...
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The 83rd Venice International Film Festival 2026 has come to an end, bringing together some of the most remarkable voices in contemporary cinema. For more than eight decades, Venice has remained one of the most respected platforms for filmmakers, actors, and artists from around the world, and this year was no different. The 2026 edition celebrated films that explored human experiences, social realities, personal struggles, and new approaches to storytelling. From established filmmakers to emerging talents, the awards reflected the diversity and creativity that continue to shape global cinema. The festival’s highest ' ...
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My first Godard film was Breathless (1960), which I watched during the pandemic while I was studying cinema intensively. I felt almost no distance from the characters. The film was abrupt, unpolished and honest about its people’s contradictions in a way few films I’d seen before had been. Nowhere is that honesty sharper than in the film’s hotel-room sequence. It externalizes Patricia’s conflict between her intellectual desire for independence and her visceral pull toward Michel’s chaotic gravity. She asserts a need for freedom even as she doubts her own love, ' ...
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Bangladeshi filmmaker Rubaiyat Hossain’s fourth feature film The Difficult Bride has received international recognition at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival, winning the Premio Bisato d’Oro for Best Direction, an independent critics’ award presented during the festival. The award is separate from the official Venice Film Festival prizes, which are decided by the festival’s official juries. The Bisato d’Oro is an independent critics’ recognition given alongside the festival programme, acknowledging notable artistic achievements among films presented at Venice. The recognition follows a major achievement for Bangladeshi cinema: The Difficult Bride was selected ' ...
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During the 1980s, wherever one happened to live in the world, films from the great Soviet cinema of the late 1920s were extremely difficult to see. For many of us, they existed first not as moving images on a screen, but as photographs discovered in books. I remember going to the city library and searching through the film section. Among books on the French New Wave and Italian Neorealism, there would almost certainly be a volume devoted to the Soviet film movement of the 1920s. As I slowly turned its pages, ' ...
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