Bangla gems

Abohomaan tells the story of Aniket, one of the finest filmmakers of Bengal in eastern India and the loves of his life. Devoted to his craft, Aniket met and fell in love with his wife Deepti, an actress, while they worked together on the set of a film. They were so in love that Deepti sacrificed her own career for her husband's and for their son Apratim, but lost a little of who she was in the process. The plot thickens when Aniket auditions a young actress, Shikha, who bares an uncanny resemblance to his wife when she was younger. Deepti enthusiastically begins to coach Shikha for her husband's film - so much so that Shikha becomes even more like the girl Deepti used to be and as a result the aging Aniket falls in love with Shikha, a woman as young as his son, despite the sadness and trouble it brings to his family.

Potrays a sentimental mother daughter relation. How a female dancer sets her priority and became famous but loses her relationship with her daughter on the way .

This is a story of isolation and hope, of a writer in exile. The writer is banished for her attack on religious fundamentalism and patriarchy and her cat is suddenly left alone.

The coffin of an expatriate worker with manipulated identity intense the identity crisis when another person's corpse is found inside.

Chitraganda: The Crowning Wish, is a lusciously lit and deeply personal drama about a choreographer considering a gender-reassignment surgery. The film also explores insights into how gender expression can affect families.

As a leader of the local community, Chairman Amin bans every kind of image in his water-locked village in rural Bangladesh. He even goes on to claim that imagination is also sinful since it gives one the license to infiltrate into any prohibited territory. But change is a desperate wind that is difficult to resist by shutting the window. The tension between this traditional window and modern wind grows to such an extent that it starts to leave a ripple effect on the lives of a group of typically colorful, eccentric, and emotional people living in that village. But at the very end of the film, Television, which he hated so much, comes to the rescue and helps Chairman Amin reach a transcendental state where he and his God are unified. A new twist to the story makes him embrace IMAGE and IMAGINATION

The musical duo of Goopi and Bagha make a comeback when they are invited to play for a king.

The story of "Dwando" revolves around Sudipta who faces a serious ethical dilemma involving her personal relationship with her husband. She is torn between two choices, each with vast and cascading repercussions affecting the lives of serveral people.

Goopy wants to sing, and Bagha wants to play the dhol. They meet accidentally and are helped by King of Ghosts. With newly endowed abilities, they land in kingdom of Shundi, where their adventure begins.

Abhik loses faith in the people around him and develops an online relationship with Brinda, a young woman who works as a journalist.

A housemaid is killed by a local landlord's son. His servant takes the blame for the murder, to save the landlord's mentally ill son and is marooned in an island named Monpura. There the servant comes across a fisherman's daughter.

Binodini is a young widow who lives with a woman and her son, Mahendra, who had once refused to marry her. Their lives are thrown into disarray when there is deceit and adultery between Binodini, Mahendra, his wife and his friend.

As the lives of rich and poor passengers aboard a steamship unfold, buried secrets, lustful affairs and selfish desires are exposed.

A mother finds out that her recently deceased son had a secret life.

Intertwined story of a bunch of bachelor friends living together and their romance complications. Sathi (Aupee Karim) does not believe in love, however, maintains "just friends" relationships with both Fahim (Ferdous Ahmed) and Rumel (Ahmed Rubel). This in turn initiates an ego clash between these two men. Hasan (Hasan Masood) is a forty plus single guy who is attracted to his much younger classmate, Shaila (Jaya Ahsan), but cannot express his feelings for her. Abrar (Humayun Faridi) is in his late fifties and is desperately looking for love. Some goes to great extent to get the love of their life and some find themselves as a part of a circle.

Sudhamoy is forced to depend on his daughter's earnings. His life takes a drastic turn when his wife falls ill and gets hospitalized.

The movie revolves around the protagonist Asad, a freedom fighter who still struggles to get out of the trauma of war. He meets Ghuddi at a film theatre and later falls in love.

An actress mysteriously dies after the "Shubho Mahurat," a celebration of the first shot of the film. A journalist and her perceptive aunt investigate.

A masterpiece made by MS Farooki. Faisol is a student of an engineering school. His good friend Sathi loves him. However, he likes a young and attractive teacher Fahmida, who lives in separation from her husband, who takes classes in the same engineering school. The story is about this triangle and their interaction with the surrounding environment of characterless teachers, over enthusiastic relatives, and gossiping friends. A true masterpiece depicting the ever changing ecology of urban life.

A story of relationships that explores the intricacies of the married life, of life-long companionship, of promises and expectations and love.

A family must come to grips with its culture, its faith, and the brutal political changes entering its small-town world.

Eleven emerging Bangladeshi filmmakers present a collection of gritty shorts centered on the capital city and the people living in its margins.

Chronicles the adventures of Prodosh Chandra Mitra a Bengali private detective along with his sidekick Topshe and friend Lalmohan Ganguly

A selfless young woman (Supriya Choudhury) sacrifices her own happiness for her unappreciative family.

A gifted make-up artist gets entangled up in a world of crime with a psychopathic vigilante.