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- DirectorMd. Hafizur RahmanGiasuddin SelimStarsChanchal ChowdhuryFarhana MiliShirin AlamA housemaid is killed by a local landlord's son. His servant takes the blame for the murder, to save the landlord's mentally ill son and is marooned in an island named Monpura. There the servant comes across a fisherman's daughter.
- DirectorTauquir AhmedStarsShahiduzzaman SelimAshraful TusharMosharraf KarimThe coffin of an expatriate worker with manipulated identity intense the identity crisis when another person's corpse is found inside.
- DirectorShiboprosad MukherjeeNandita RoyJyoti HazraStarsSoumitra ChatterjeeSwatilekha SenguptaRituparna SenguptaA story of relationships that explores the intricacies of the married life, of life-long companionship, of promises and expectations and love.
- DirectorRituparno GhoshSanjoy NagStarsRituparno GhoshJisshu SenguptaKaushik BanerjeeChitraganda: The Crowning Wish, is a lusciously lit and deeply personal drama about a choreographer considering a gender-reassignment surgery. The film also explores insights into how gender expression can affect families.
- DirectorMostofa Sarwar FarookiStarsShahir Huda RumiChanchal ChowdhuryNusrat Imrose TishaAs a leader of the local community, Chairman Amin bans every kind of image in his water-locked village in rural Bangladesh. He even goes on to claim that imagination is also sinful since it gives one the license to infiltrate into any prohibited territory. But change is a desperate wind that is difficult to resist by shutting the window. The tension between this traditional window and modern wind grows to such an extent that it starts to leave a ripple effect on the lives of a group of typically colorful, eccentric, and emotional people living in that village. But at the very end of the film, Television, which he hated so much, comes to the rescue and helps Chairman Amin reach a transcendental state where he and his God are unified. A new twist to the story makes him embrace IMAGE and IMAGINATION
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsTapan ChatterjeeRabi GhoshUtpal DuttThe musical duo of Goopi and Bagha make a comeback when they are invited to play for a king.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsTapan ChatterjeeRabi GhoshAjoy BanerjeeGoopy wants to sing, and Bagha wants to play the dhol. They meet accidentally and are helped by King of Ghosts. With newly endowed abilities, they land in kingdom of Shundi, where their adventure begins.
- DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsAparna SenDebashree RoyDipankar DeyPotrays a sentimental mother daughter relation. How a female dancer sets her priority and became famous but loses her relationship with her daughter on the way .
- DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsPrasenjit ChatterjeeKonkona Sen SharmaChandrayee GhoshThe story of "Dwando" revolves around Sudipta who faces a serious ethical dilemma involving her personal relationship with her husband. She is torn between two choices, each with vast and cascading repercussions affecting the lives of serveral people.
- DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsDipankar DeyMamata ShankarJisshu SenguptaAbohomaan tells the story of Aniket, one of the finest filmmakers of Bengal in eastern India and the loves of his life. Devoted to his craft, Aniket met and fell in love with his wife Deepti, an actress, while they worked together on the set of a film. They were so in love that Deepti sacrificed her own career for her husband's and for their son Apratim, but lost a little of who she was in the process. The plot thickens when Aniket auditions a young actress, Shikha, who bares an uncanny resemblance to his wife when she was younger. Deepti enthusiastically begins to coach Shikha for her husband's film - so much so that Shikha becomes even more like the girl Deepti used to be and as a result the aging Aniket falls in love with Shikha, a woman as young as his son, despite the sadness and trouble it brings to his family.
- DirectorChurni GangulyStarsChurni GangulySaswata ChatterjeeChristoffer AigeviThis is a story of isolation and hope, of a writer in exile. The writer is banished for her attack on religious fundamentalism and patriarchy and her cat is suddenly left alone.
- DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsAishwarya Rai BachchanPrasenjit ChatterjeeRaima SenBinodini is a young widow who lives with a woman and her son, Mahendra, who had once refused to marry her. Their lives are thrown into disarray when there is deceit and adultery between Binodini, Mahendra, his wife and his friend.
- DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsSoumitra ChatterjeeDebashree RoyArpita ChatterjeeSudhamoy is forced to depend on his daughter's earnings. His life takes a drastic turn when his wife falls ill and gets hospitalized.
- DirectorSyed Salahuddin ZakiStarsRaisul Islam AsadSuborna MustafaNasiruddin YousuffThe movie revolves around the protagonist Asad, a freedom fighter who still struggles to get out of the trauma of war. He meets Ghuddi at a film theatre and later falls in love.
- DirectorNoor Imran MithuStarsTauquir AhmedMosharraf KarimJoyraajAs the lives of rich and poor passengers aboard a steamship unfold, buried secrets, lustful affairs and selfish desires are exposed.
- DirectorSanjoy NagStarsDeepti NavalRaima SenRituparno GhoshA mother finds out that her recently deceased son had a secret life.
- DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsSharmila TagoreNandita DasKalyani MandalAn actress mysteriously dies after the "Shubho Mahurat," a celebration of the first shot of the film. A journalist and her perceptive aunt investigate.
- DirectorTareque MasudStarsNurul Islam BabluRussell FaraziJayanto ChattopadhyayA family must come to grips with its culture, its faith, and the brutal political changes entering its small-town world.
- DirectorAniruddha Roy ChowdhuryStarsRahul BoseAparna SenRadhika ApteAbhik loses faith in the people around him and develops an online relationship with Brinda, a young woman who works as a journalist.
- DirectorMostofa Sarwar FarookiStarsFerdous AhmedJaya AhsanMoutushi BiswasIntertwined story of a bunch of bachelor friends living together and their romance complications. Sathi (Aupee Karim) does not believe in love, however, maintains "just friends" relationships with both Fahim (Ferdous Ahmed) and Rumel (Ahmed Rubel). This in turn initiates an ego clash between these two men. Hasan (Hasan Masood) is a forty plus single guy who is attracted to his much younger classmate, Shaila (Jaya Ahsan), but cannot express his feelings for her. Abrar (Humayun Faridi) is in his late fifties and is desperately looking for love. Some goes to great extent to get the love of their life and some find themselves as a part of a circle.
- DirectorMostofa Sarwar FarookiStarsMamunul HaqueElora GohorAupee KarimA masterpiece made by MS Farooki. Faisol is a student of an engineering school. His good friend Sathi loves him. However, he likes a young and attractive teacher Fahmida, who lives in separation from her husband, who takes classes in the same engineering school. The story is about this triangle and their interaction with the surrounding environment of characterless teachers, over enthusiastic relatives, and gossiping friends. A true masterpiece depicting the ever changing ecology of urban life.
- DirectorAbdul Qaiyum LeonTanvir AhsanSaleh Sobhan AuneemStarsMostafizur Noor ImranShah YeanurFazlur Rahman BabuEleven emerging Bangladeshi filmmakers present a collection of gritty shorts centered on the capital city and the people living in its margins.
- StarsTota Roy ChowdhuryAnirban ChakrabartiKalpan MitraChronicles the adventures of Prodosh Chandra Mitra a Bengali private detective along with his sidekick Topshe and friend Lalmohan Ganguly
- DirectorRitwik GhatakStarsSupriya ChoudhuryAnil ChatterjeeGyanesh MukherjeeA selfless young woman (Supriya Choudhury) sacrifices her own happiness for her unappreciative family.
- DirectorSrijit MukherjiStarsAnirban BhattacharyaRitwick ChakrabortyRudranil GhoshA gifted make-up artist gets entangled up in a world of crime with a psychopathic vigilante.
- DirectorTapan SinhaStarsMumtaz AhmedBhanu BannerjeeTapan BhattacharyaA mysterious man arrives as a servant in a dysfunctional and fragmented joint family and over time, helps them to rebuild the love and compassion within the family.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsUttam KumarSharmila TagoreBireswar SenEn route to Delhi to receive an award, a Bengali film star reevaluates his success through his fellow passengers, dreams, and past experiences.
- DirectorSrijit MukherjiStarsPrasenjit ChatterjeeIndraneil SenguptaNandana SenThe plot revolves around three lives - a superstar, a young director and a theatre actress - and how their coming together during the process of making a film, changes them forever. The film is also a humble tribute to Satyajit Ray's Nayak.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsUtpal DuttDipankar DeyMamata ShankarA well-off family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be the woman's long-lost uncle. The initial suspicion with which they greet the man slowly dissolves as he regales them with stories of his travels.
- DirectorPartha SenStarsRitwick ChakrabortySwastika MukherjeeDebolina DuttaLife and Death are not each other's opposites; death exists for the sake of life. Does he realize this in life or get carried away? This is what ANUBRTO, BHALO ACHHO? is about.
- DirectorBuddhadev DasguptaStarsMithun ChakrabortyRahul BoseSameera ReddyA man struggles with his memories of his powerful father.
- DirectorAditi RoyStarsRonjini ChakrabortyRoopa GangulyAnkur KhannaSoumyo (Khanna), returns from San Francisco to Kolkata, the city of his birth at the behest of his estranged mother, the enigmatic and vivacious Suchismita (Ganguly). What should have been a quick journey turns into a voyage of self-discovery and an exploration of the great metropolis that is Kolkata, a living, breathing character in the film. In the ravishing Nandini (Sen), Suchismita's protégé, Soumyo finds answers to his past and perhaps the future.
- DirectorIndranil RoychowdhuryStarsKamalika BanerjeeParan BanerjeeBratya BasuA petty criminal who loves a whore and wants to run away with her savings meets a laid-off factory worker who is desperate to stop his wife from working as a housemaid.
- DirectorSangeeta DattaStarsPrasenjit ChatterjeeSoumitra ChatterjeeArjun RampalAn insight into the life of Late Writer-Director Rituparno Ghosh (Iconic Cultural figure from West Bengal, India, who pushed borders on sexuality, feminism and freedom of thought. The film is about an artist's relationship to his city Calcutta, and based on his personal memoirs, archival material and conversations with cast, crew and family.
- DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsKirron KherChiranjitSudipta ChakrabortyA lonely middle-aged woman is forced by circumstance to let out her house to a film crew. She is attracted to the charming director and he exploits this fact to suit his purposes.
- DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsJackie ShroffAbhishek BachchanRoopa GangulyIn late 19th Century, Bengal Bhubaneswar Chowdhury (Jackie Shroff) is a wealthy and tyrannical Zamidar (Squire). He has two main obsessions: his desperate attempts for an heir, which even his new second wife Jashomati seems unable to deliver; and competing with his regional rivals to produce the most magnificent effigy of a goddess for the annual Durga Puja ceremony. This year he concocts a master plan - why not change the face of the goddess for the most powerful woman on Earth - Queen Victoria. Meantime his two wives Mahomaya and Jashomati try to look out for one another especially as Bhubeneshwar begins to sexually assault his younger wife each night. Traumatised and lonely, Jashomati is dangerously drawn towards the youthful sculptor who has been employed to create the great effigy of Durga, Goddess of destruction.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsSoumitra ChatterjeeSharmila TagoreAlok ChakravartyThis final installment in Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy follows Apu's life as an orphaned adult aspiring to be a writer.
- DirectorMostofa Sarwar FarookiStarsMonwar Hossain DipjolMostofa Sarwar FarookiDolly JohurFarhan and Titi are a director-actor couple living in Dhaka. In a conservative and patriarchal Muslim society, they are criticized for not having children even after 10 years of marriage.