Farooki’s next film endeavour on Gulshan attack
Filmmaker Mostafa Sarwar Farooki revealed his plans to make his next film on the terror attack at Gulshan café.
The film, titled Holy Bakery, will be a one-shot film.
Farooki, who is now attending the Busan Film Festival short film jury, said reporters the film will be ‘intimate and intense.’
‘In that one-shot I believe we will be able to explore the complexity of South Asian politics, the rise of the culture of hatred, the rise of intolerance, the rise of militancy and conflict between the modern Bangladesh and a small segment of those who are conservative,’ said the acclaimed film director.
The cast of the upcoming film will be fixed in early 2017.Farooki’s production outfit Chabial will produce with other entities joining shortly.
He is also producing ‘A Foolish Man’ (‘Apodartho’), directed by Abu Shahed Emon, whose ‘Jalal’s Story’ was Bangladesh’s entry to the 2016 Oscars. The project has been selected for the National Film Development Corporation of India’s annual Film Bazaar co-production market in November. And ‘No Man’s Land,’ an ambitious film set across five countries, will be next up.
Farooki’s ‘Television’ won the grand jury prize at the Asia Pacific Screen awards and won a Muhr Asia Africa special mention at the Dubai international film festival in 2012. Ever since ‘Television’ closed Busan in 2012, Bangladesh has seen an uptick in independent cinema.