Bangladesh Culture Ministry Taps Eight Directors for ‘Remembering Monsoon Revolution’ Initiative

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Naman Ramachandran The Bangladesh Ministry of Cultural Affairs has launched an ambitious anthology film project titled “Remembering Monsoon Revolution,” selecting eight accomplished directors to create works that will traverse the breadth of the country.

The project will produce six fictional stories and two documentaries, each running 40-50 minutes. The initiative’s title is a reference to the events of July 2024, referred to as the Monsoon Revolution, that led to then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina‘s flight from the country amid mass protests and the formation of an interim government under the leadership of Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus.

The project, overseen by celebrated Bangladeshi filmmaker Mostofa Sarwar Farooki who has been put in charge of the Ministry of Cultural Affairs, and a three-member search committee including Sumon Rahman, Adnan Al Rajeev and Tanim Noor, will conduct workshops across Bangladesh’s eight divisions.

Each director will mentor emerging filmmakers from regional ShilpoKola Academies, with a final delivery date of May 30. The selected filmmakers bring diverse expertise to the project: Nuhash Humayun, whose horror short “Moshari” became Bangladesh’s first Oscar-qualifying film and attracted Jordan Peele and Riz Ahmed as executive producers, has gained international recognition including winning best international feature at Raindance for “Pett Kata Shaw” Anam Biswas, a national award-winning screenwriter-director known for “Debi” and series including “Rongila Kitab,” brings experience in both theatrical and streaming content creation.