LBFF 2022

Day 1 · 6.30pm · Barbican Cinema

Innocence(Amra Ekta Cinema Banabo))

Dir. Arshraf Shishir · Bengali with English subtitles

Shot in stunning black-and-white, this film made waves as the longest non-experimental narrative film ever produced – nine years in the making, In this shorter version, a mosaic of characters of different ages and walks of life orbit a single central figure – a man known locally as the ‘lunatic’, who is also an ardent…

Day 2 · East End Homes (allocated)

No Ground Beneath the Feet

Dir. Mohammad Rabby Mridha · Bengali with English subtitles

Set in the backdrop of the scathing consequences of climate change, an impoverished ambulance driver Saiful staggers between two wives while he sets out on a bone-tired journey of moral decay, murder, deception, and social bashing.

Day 2 · 4.45pm · Close-Up Cinema

#Homecoming Uk Premiere

Dir. Soumyajit Majumdar · Bengali

Starring one of India's celebrated rising star, Sayani Gupta, this film is about a theatre group formed by an entire generation of artistically inclined high school-college outlaws, who eventually pioneered the “failed” Calcutta( Kolkata) youth-theatre movement,

Day 3 · 6pm · 91 Commercial Street

Straining the Rice (Short) & Talk

Over dinner, a British Bengali woman tells her grandchildren about the horrors of the famine she witnessed in 1943. This is a 18-minute short film followed by a discussion.

Day 4 · 3.00pm · Brady Arts Centre

A Father's Diary Uk Premiere

Dir. Golam Mustofa · Bengali

Hassan and Mario - are neighbors. They have raised their daughters, Dina and Isabella together, supporting each other through tough times. When Hassan, faces the challenges of modern life, both inside and outside the home, his reactions propel a series of events that threatens everything he holds dear.

Day 4 · 5.00pm · Brady Arts Centre

Gontobbyo

Dir. Ayrnnya Polash · Bengali with English subtitles

Inspired from Father of Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s historic 7th March 1971 Speech, and story of the film taken from Shanjiban Shikder’s Pathankot “Koibollya.”