Mostafa Sarwar Farooki’s film “Television,” which brought the curtain down on the Busan Film Festival in South Korea in October 2012, has been selected in four more film festivals this year.
The film will open Perspectives Film Festival which will begin on October 3 in Singapore. The film has been selected in the festival’s “Breakthrough in Independent Cinema” category which also features films by Martin Scoresese and Danny Boyle among others.
In October, the film will compete with a number of quality films from all across the Asia in Rome’s Asia Tica Film Mediale’s. In November, the film will be screened in Kolkata International Film Festival.
“Television” is going to participate in Asia Pacific Screen Awards’ “competition” category. The main programme of the competition will be held in Australia this December.
Farooki, who previously directed “Third Person Singular Number,” which collected awards on international festival circuit, describes the film as “Tradition meets Facebook.” The story, which he co-scripted with Anisul Hoque, is that of an Imam who loathes all modernity, especially cell-phones, television and new media. The story has a happy, new media ending for the Imam who is unable to make his planned trip to Mecca.
“Television” is based on the theme of tradition versus contemporary in the rural arena. The film features Nusrat Imrose Tisha, Mosharraf Karim and Chanchal Chowdhury in lead roles.
