Actor-director Tauquir Ahmed’s latest directorial venture “Oggatonama” (The Unnamed) will be screened at the Fifth Washington DC South Asian Film Festival to be held from September 9 to 11 this year. The film, which tells the story of its central character, a poor farmer from a remote Bangladesh village facing challenges at every step from the bureaucracy, from his peers and finally from the traditional mindset after receiving the dead body of an ‘Oggatonama’ sends out a strong message that despite race, culture, religion and language divides, humanity is the key driver for existence of human civilisation.
“Oggatonama” will be screened on September 10, according to the schedule released by the organisers of the Festival.
Tauquir’s movie, which has Mosharraf Karim, Nipun and Shahed Ali as cast, was premiered during the Cannes Festival this year and won Jury Mention Award in Gulf of Naples Independent Film Festival 2016.
The South Asian Film Festival will open with the screening of national award-winning Indian director Suman Ghosh’s “Mi Amor” starring Parambrata Chatterjee and Raima Sen. The film is the story of two Indians, Riju and Sree who are in their 30s and live in Miami. The staleness and loneliness of their diaspora life in the US makes them embark on an unusual romantic journey in an effort to spice up their life together.
Among the films to be screened at the Festival are the Naseeruddin Shah and Kalki Koechlin-starred “Waiting” directed by India’s Anu Menon and “Kaagaz ki Kashti” a film tracing the journey of ghazal maestro Jagjit Singh from a small town boy to the world of music.
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