Surja Dighal Bari
''Surja Dighal Bari'' (''The Ominous House'') is a 1979 Bangladeshi feature film directed and produced by Sheikh Niamat Ali and Masihuddin Shaker. The screenplay was based on Abu Ishaque's 1955 novel of the same title. It was the first film made from the Government of Bangladesh grant. The film was first released in a theater in Natore. The film won Bangladesh National Film Award in 7 categories including Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actress. It also won five international awards, including Mannheim Film Festival and Portugal Film Society. Cast * Dolly Anwar as Jaigun * Rawshan Jamil as Shafi's mother * Sitara Begum as Lalu's Mother * ATM Shamsuzzaman as Jobed Fakir * Elora Gohor as Maymun Response Film critic Ahmed Muztaba Zamal, writing in '' Cinemaya'' in 2000, named ''Surja Dighal Bari'' as one of the top twelve films from Bangladesh. Writing in 2010, scholar of Asian cinema Zakir Hossain Raju called it "one of the best films ever made in B ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sheikh Niamat Ali
Sheikh Niamat Ali (30 April 1940 – 24 November 2003) was a Bangladeshi film director. He won the Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Director in 1979, 1985, and 1995 for all the three feature films he ever made - '' Surja Dighal Bari'', ''Dahan,'' and ''Anyajiban'' respectively. Career In 1977, Ali and his co-director Masihuddin Shaker Masihuddin Shaker is a Bangladeshi film director and writer. In 1979, he won the Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Director for the film '' Surja Dighal Bari''. Background Shaker studied architecture at Bangladesh University of Engineer ... started shooting the film '' Surja Dighal Bari''. The film was based on a novel by Abu Ishaque about the rural people in the 1950s. It won five international awards, including the Mannheim Film Festival and the Portugal Film Society. It was the first film made with a Bangladesh government grant. Filmography * '' Surja Dighal Bari'' (1979) * '' Dahan'' (1985) * '' Anya Jibon'' (1995) Awards ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mannheim Film Festival
The Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival (), often referred to by the German-language initialism IFFMH, is an annual film festival established in 1952 hosted jointly by the cities of Mannheim and Heidelberg in Baden-Württemberg, the southwest region of Germany. The festival focuses on arthouse and auteur cinema produced by international newcomer directors, and historically it served as a springboard for many experimental filmmakers from cinemas that have been overlooked by Western audiences. It is the second-oldest film festival in Germany, behind only the Berlinale. Originally held in Mannheim, since 1994 is co-hosted by Mannheim and Heidelberg, two neighboring cities which are less than 20 kilometers away from each other. The festival usually takes places in October or November. The last edition, the 70th IFFMH, was held in November 2021, and the next edition is scheduled to take place on 17–27 November 2022. Background The International Filmfestival Mannheim-H ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Best Film National Film Award (Bangladesh) Winners
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Best Film Bachsas Award Winners
Best or The Best may refer to: People * Best (surname), people with the surname Best * Best (footballer, born 1968), retired Portuguese footballer Companies and organizations * Best & Co., an 1879–1971 clothing chain * Best Lock Corporation, a lock manufacturer * Best Manufacturing Company, a farm machinery company * Best Products, a chain of catalog showroom retail stores * Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport, a public transport and utility provider * Best High School (other) Acronyms * Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature, a project to assess global temperature records * BEST Robotics, a student competition * BioEthanol for Sustainable Transport * Bootstrap error-adjusted single-sample technique, a statistical method * Bringing Examination and Search Together, a European Patent Office initiative * Bronx Environmental Stewardship Training, a program of the Sustainable South Bronx organization * Smart BEST, a Japanese experimental train * Brihanmumbai Electric ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1970s Bengali-language Films
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Bengali-language Bangladeshi Films
Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (, , ), is an Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. It is native to the Bengal region (Bangladesh, India's West Bengal and Tripura) of South Asia. With over 242 million native speakers and another 43 million as second language speakers as of 2025, Bengali is the sixth most spoken native language and the seventh most spoken language by the total number of speakers in the world. Bengali is the official, national, and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh, with 98% of Bangladeshis using Bengali as their first language. It is the second-most widely spoken language in India. It is the official language of the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and the Barak Valley region of the state of Assam. It is also the second official language of the Indian state of Jharkhand since September 2011. It is the most widely spoken language in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bangladesh National Film Award For Best Actress
Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Actress () is the highest award for film actresses in Bangladesh. List of winners Records and statistics Multiple wins The following individuals received two or more Best Actress awards: See also * Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Actor * Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor * Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress Notes References {{Bangladesh National Film Awards Actress National Film Awards (Bangladesh) The National Film Awards () is an annual awards ceremony held annually in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is considered to be the most significant film award ceremony in Bangladesh. The National Film Awards were established in 1975 by the government of Ba ... ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bangladesh National Film Award For Best Director
National Film Award for Best Director () is the highest award for film directors in Bangladesh, presented annually at Bangladesh National Film Awards ceremony by the Ministry of Information. It is given in honour of a film director who has exhibited excellence directing in Bangladeshi cinema. Since 1975, the award is given annually except in 1981, 1998 and 2003. It is presented by the President of Bangladesh at a ceremony held in Dhaka. The 1st National Film Awards ceremony was held in 1976, and Narayan Ghosh Mita was the first awardee of this category for directing the film '' Lathial'' (1975). Since its inception, a total of 43 awards have been given to 32 directors. A. J. Mintu has received the most awards in this category with four, following Sheikh Niamat Ali three times. 2017 best director, producer & Screenplay writer Reazul Rezu. As of the 2023 ceremony, Rubaiyat Hossain is the recent winner in this category for the film '' Shimu'' (2022). List of winners ;Key Mu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bangladesh National Film Award For Best Film
The Bangladesh National Award for Best Film (officially National Award Best Film ) is one of the categories in the National Film Awards presented annually by the Department of Films and Publications, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information in Bangladesh. It is the highest award for films in Bangladesh. This award goes to the producers of the film and is the only category in a year. The award comprises a medal, a certificate, and a cash prize of . '' Lathial'', produced and directed by Narayan Ghosh Mita, won the first National Film Awards for Best Film in 1975. Chashi Nazrul Islam and Tauquir Ahmed are the most honoured directors, they both have three films—'' Shuvoda'' (1986), '' Padma Meghna Jamuna'' (1991), '' Hason Raja'' (2002); and '' Joyjatra'' (2004), '' Daruchini Dip'' (2007), '' Oggatonama'' (2016) respectively won the award. Followed by Sheikh Niamat Ali, Amjad Hossain and Morshedul Islam, Tanvir Mokammel (two each). Since 2019, the award has giv ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Zakir Hossain Raju
Zakir Hossain Raju () is a Bangladeshi academic, film critic and filmmaker. He currently serves as a member of the Bangladesh Film Certification Board, Expert Committee member of the Bangladesh Film Archive, Director of the King Sejong Institute, Bangladesh & Head of the Media and Communication department at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB). He also served as NETPAC jury chair for the Asian cinema category at the 80th Venice International Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Early life and academic career Raju was born and raised in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He obtained his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Mass Communication from the University of Dhaka. Later, he earned his Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from La Trobe University in Australia. Throughout his academic career, Raju has held various positions, including Research Fellow at Transparency International Bangladesh in 2005, Ford Foundation, ASIA Fellow a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cinemaya
''Cinemaya'' (a blend of ''cinema'' and '' maya'' (illusion)) is a film magazine established in 1988 devoted exclusively to coverage of Asian film. It is published in New Delhi, India, and distributed internationally. The present editor-in-chief of Cinemaya is Aruna Vasudev, noted film journalist. Its goals are to promote Asian filmmaking internationally and to help Asian national cinemas gain wider international recognition. In 1990, in collaboration with UNESCO it founded the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema, an association of film professionals based in Singapore which presents annual awards for greatest Asian achievements in filmmaking at selected film festival A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theater, cinemas or screening venues, usually annually and in a single city or region. Some film festivals show films outdoors or online. Films may be of recent ...s around the world. Cinefan or Cinemaya Festival of Asi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ahmed Muztaba Zamal
Ahmed Muztaba Zamal is a Bangladeshi film critic. He is the editor of ''Celluloid'', a quarterly film magazine, and is the director of the Dhaka International Film Festival. Biography Zamal first attended a film festival, the Munich Film Festival, in 1991. The following year he started the Dhaka International Film Festival. Major film festivals, in addition to the juries selected by the festival to award its prizes, often feature independent juries that follow their own criteria to award their own prizes. Zamal was a member of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) independent jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1998 and 2018, at the Cannes Film Festival in 2002, 2005 and 2009, and at the Venice Film Festival in 2007. Zamal has directed several documentaries, starting with ''Truth and Beyond'' (2006), which explores Islam in Bangladesh. Later that year he made ''Smritir Minar'' (''A Monument of Memories''), which records Bangladeshi participation in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |