Born Together to be screened at Mumbai Int'l Film Fest
Bangladesh filmmaker Shabnam Ferdousi's documentary Born Together (Jonmosathi) will be screened at the 15th Mumbai International Film Festival. The oldest and largest film festival for non-feature films in South Asia began in 1990.
The seven-day festival, organized by India's ministry of Information and broadcasting, is set to kick-off today.Ferdousi told bdnews24 that her film, which attempted to document lives of Bangladesh War children, will be screened on Feb 2. "As far as I know, this is the third documentary from Bangladesh to be screened at this prestigious festival," she said.
The documentary film has been already screened in four festivals and won awards in two of them."Actually I hadn't sent it to any festival. I gave it to those who only wanted to show it.
My priority was screening it in Bangladesh, because a lot of people do not know about this side of the history," she said. "Besides, it costs to send films to festivals and I cannot afford that," added Ferdousi.
Premiered in Dhaka in 2016, the 90-minute documentary is about two war children. It also tells the story of a Birangana, a 1971 rape victim, and her child.
