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About the Festival
It is a great pleasure for us to declare that we are going to organize a 4-day international film festival from 4th February to 7th February 2012 at Haripada Sahitya Mandir, Purulia. The Festival, we hope, is going to be a mega cultural event. What triggered just from an adda, emerged as a collective enterprise of the cultured youth of Purulia, though under all good wishes, guidance and cooperation from the elderly gentry. Thus, stemming beards shook hands with grey hairs, and the blossoming began… every voice cheered… “lets have some sky… some fresh air… let’s taste the good and the thoughtful…and indeed, the sensitive… on the celluloid. The dream and perception with which it all began was not merely to ‘show’ films- for this cyber age of ours has made viewing film all much easier- but to see good films together, to have the collective experience and exchange, to break the windows of knowledge monopoly, to transport and import ideas and thoughts. Please do come. Or else, we’ll miss you. The festival is dedicated to the memory of our neighbor Tareque Masud (6 December 1956- 13 August 2011), an award-winning independent film director from Bangladesh. Masud’s first full –length feature film, Matir Moina (English release title “The Clay Bird”) which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival, derives inspiration from his own childhood experiences, especially in the Madrasa. He won the International Critic’s Award at the Cannes film Festival in 2002 for this film, as well as the FIPRESCI Prize for Directors’ Fortnight for “its authentic, moving and delicate portrayal of a country struggling for its democratic rights.” Masud died in a road accident near Ghior Upazila on 13 August 2011 while returning to Dhaka from Manikganj on the Dhaka-Aricha highway after visiting a shooting location. His last work, titled “kagojer Ful” (the paper Flower), filming of which was supposed to begin after shooting locations were selected, remain an unfinished project. |
