Legendary Bengali writer Manik Bandyopadhyay’s two short stories, Bishakto Prem (Poisonous Love) and Subala, inspired the film Debris of Desire (Mayar Jonjal). In the movie, two stories run parallelly and start and end in the same place with a similar result. It is a story of day-to-day lower-middle-class life in present-day Kolkata. The same people who we see or may know around us. They are everyday people, struggling for survival, earning money in different ways to secure their future. The filmmaker Indranil Roychowdhury has been working in the film industry ' ...
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Few actors have travelled through American cinema with the quiet endurance and emotional force of Ellen Burstyn. This September, the 83rd Venice International Film Festival will honor the 93-year-old actress with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, recognizing a career that has crossed more than six decades of film, television and theatre. The award was approved by the Board of La Biennale di Venezia following a recommendation from festival artistic director Alberto Barbera. For Burstyn, the recognition arrives as more than a celebration of the past. She remains an active performer, ' ...
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August 31st is the birthday of Rituparno Ghosh (1963–2013), one of the filmmakers who helped reshape contemporary Bengali cinema. In the 1990s--when Bengali cinema struggled to find a way between commercial drama and flashy mainstream ideas--Rituparno came with a special way of seeing things, deep kindness and a great sense of what people do not say. He made stories that were rich and full of thought. He made normal rooms look like pictures of the characters inside. He broke rules with his new ways of showing gender, who people are ' ...
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Bangladeshi film critic and writer Bidhan Rebeiro will attend the 83rd Venice International Film Festival as a film critic and editor of Cut To Cinema. The festival will take place at the Venice Lido from 2 to 12 September 2026. Rebeiro is the editor and publisher of Cut To Cinema. It is an English-language monthly film magazine published from Dhaka. Organised by La Biennale di Venezia, this year’s festival has 21 feature films in the main Venezia 83 Competition. The programme also includes Orizzonti and Venice Spotlight. Other sections include Venice ' ...
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The University of Chankharpul is mainly about the dirty politics and power culture of Bangladeshi public universities. Those who studied or are studying in public universities, especially students who have lived in residential halls will probably find many situations in this film familiar. Political “boro bhais,” compulsory political programmes, maintaining relationships with powerful seniors, fighting for political positions and sometimes simply trying to survive in the hall are all part of the world the film shows us. Director Akash Haque himself experienced “gono room” life at Dhaka University and that ' ...
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