Having its world premier in SXSW 2022, where it won Grand Jury Award for Best Midnight Short, Bangladeshi short “Moshari” (which means mosquito net) went on to win multiple Oscar qualifying awards at Atlanta Film Festival, Short Shorts & Asia, and a Jury’s Choice at Bifan. Its festival path all over the world is continuing non-stop and we just caught it in Fantasia.
“Moshari” is screening on Fantasia International Film Festival
The film shows its colors from the beginning, with a dead cow being feasted upon by mosquitoes, while a young girl is chanting a prayer and her older sister urges them to live. It is soon revealed that the two live in Bangladesh, one of the few places in the world that has survived the catastrophe brought by mosquitoes, as a man on a speakerphone heard throughout the area is eloquently spreading. Bangladeshi have achieved that in the simplest of ways,...
“Moshari” is screening on Fantasia International Film Festival
The film shows its colors from the beginning, with a dead cow being feasted upon by mosquitoes, while a young girl is chanting a prayer and her older sister urges them to live. It is soon revealed that the two live in Bangladesh, one of the few places in the world that has survived the catastrophe brought by mosquitoes, as a man on a speakerphone heard throughout the area is eloquently spreading. Bangladeshi have achieved that in the simplest of ways,...
- 7/24/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Exclusive: Anonymous Content and CAA have signed Nuhash Humayun, the Bangladeshi writer-director whose horror short Moshari won the Grand Jury Award at SXSW 2022, for representation.
The original 22-minute horror-fantasy pic was the first film from Bangladesh to premiere in SXSW’s Midnight Shorts Program. It follows sisters Apu (Sunerah Binte Kamal) and Ayra (Nairah Onora Saif), who seek shelter inside archaic mosquito nets—the only way to survive against bloodthirsty monsters—if they can first survive each other. Moshari also this year won the Atlanta Film Festival’s prize for Best Narrative Short.
In addition to SXSW, Humayun’s projects have earned support from Sundance, Film Independent and ScreenCraft. The filmmaker was a ScreenCraft 2022 Film Fund Jury Winner and the first Bangladeshi fellow accepted to the Sundance Screenwriters Intensive. Up next for Humayun as a director is the feature Moving Bangladesh—a subversive corporate drama, which is currently in pre-production.
The original 22-minute horror-fantasy pic was the first film from Bangladesh to premiere in SXSW’s Midnight Shorts Program. It follows sisters Apu (Sunerah Binte Kamal) and Ayra (Nairah Onora Saif), who seek shelter inside archaic mosquito nets—the only way to survive against bloodthirsty monsters—if they can first survive each other. Moshari also this year won the Atlanta Film Festival’s prize for Best Narrative Short.
In addition to SXSW, Humayun’s projects have earned support from Sundance, Film Independent and ScreenCraft. The filmmaker was a ScreenCraft 2022 Film Fund Jury Winner and the first Bangladeshi fellow accepted to the Sundance Screenwriters Intensive. Up next for Humayun as a director is the feature Moving Bangladesh—a subversive corporate drama, which is currently in pre-production.
- 5/16/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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