Television

DIRECTOR: Mostofa Sawar Farooki COUTNRY: Bangladesh YEAR: 2012 LANGUAGE(S): Bengali SUBTITLES: Englisch RUNNING TIME: 106 min

SECTION: Films from Bangladesh 2015

SYNOPSIS

As a leader of the local community, Chairman Amin (Shahir Huda Rumi) 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.

MOSTOFA SAWAR FAROOKI
The pioneer of an avant-garde filmmakers’ movement called “Chabial” (the Film Hawkers) in Bangladesh, Farooki’s works deal with numerous themes, such as love among young urban people, deception and hypocrisy, frustration on their own cult, traditional concept of guilt and atonement in Islamic world. He has a documentary style that sometimes takes on a poetic aspect. His third full-length feature THIRD PERSON SINGULAR NUMBER premiered
at the Busan International Film Festival in 2009, and went on to compete at the Abu Dhabi International Film Festival the same year. His fourth feature TELEVISION (2012) was the closing film of Busan International Film Festival and won Jury Grand Prize in 2013 Asia Pacific Screen Awards. His fifth feature, ANT STORY (2013), got nominated for the Golden Goblet Awards at the 2014 Shanghai International Film Festival and Muhr Asia/Africa Awards at the 2013 Dubai International Film Festival.

FILMOGRAPHY
Bachelor (2003), Made In Bangladesh (2007), Third Person Singular Number (2009), Television (2012), Ant Story (2013)

SCRIPT: Anisul Hoque, Mostafa Sawar Farooki CAMERA: Golam Maola Nobir EDITOR: Razon Khaled MUSIC: Ayub Bachchu CAST: Shahir Huda Rumi, Chanchal Chowdhury, Mosharraf Karim, Nusrat Imrose Tisha

PRODUCTION: Chabial WORLD SALES: M-line Distirbution