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Bangladeshi filmmakers Mostofa Sarwar Farooki and Nusrat Imrose Tisha’s “One thing Like an Autobiography” has been acquired for UK broadcast by Channel 4.
The movie had its world premiere on the 2023 Busan Worldwide Movie Pageant, the place it was within the prestigious Jiseok competitors. It was additionally part of the South Asian icon strand on the 2023 Mumbai Movie Pageant. The movie follows a Dhaka-based married couple, the filmmaker Farhan (Farooki) and actor Tithi (Tisha), who’re below societal strain to have a child. Tithi conceives and in direction of the tip of her being pregnant time period an incident happens that throws into sharp aid some realities of up to date Bangladeshi society.
The title, a nod to Kurosawa Akira’s celebrated memoir, can be reflective of the actual lives of Farooki and Tisha, a real-life superstar couple who’re probably the most acknowledged filmmaker and actor in Bangladesh, respectively.
“It is a particular movie for me and Tisha. Private, embarrassing and rewarding on the identical time. I’m comfortable the movie will probably be seen by the Channel 4 viewers. Hope they may be capable to join with the common theme though portrayed by native particulars,” Farooki advised Selection.
The movie is produced by Redoan Rony for Bangladeshi streaming platform Chorki and co-produced by Nina Lath, Anna Katchko and Tisha. It is part of Chorki’s 12-film venture “Ministry of Love.”
Chorki CEO Rony mentioned: “Channel 4 is an esteemed broadcaster. We’re glad that they selected our movie to showcase it to their viewers. Chorki at all times needs to make high quality movies and sequence. It is a clear signal we’re shifting in the fitting course.”
“One thing Like an Autobiography” performs subsequent on the Sydney Movie Pageant.
Farooki’s “Final Defenders of Monogamy” can be a part of the “Ministry of Love” anthology.
Subsequent up for Farooki is the UK-based Hindi and English-language romance “To Hell With Love,” which just lately participated within the first version of India’s Cinevesture Worldwide Movie Pageant’s venture market.
