Kamar Ahmad Simon's Are You Listening! (2012), Mostofa Sarwar Farooki's Television (2012) and Rubaiyat Hossain's Under Construction (2015) will be screened along with other selected features films for Open Doors Screenings.
Three Bangladeshi short films includes Ishtiaque Zico's 720 Degrees (2010), Mahde Hasan's I Am Time (2013) and Abu Shahed Emon's The Container (2012) made the selection for Open Doors Screenings as well.
Locarno Open Doors, a non-competitive section which is meant for the festival audience, presents each year a selection of films particularly representative of the cinematographic and cultural landscape of the region on which the Open Doors focuses on. This year the selection is dedicated to four South Asian countries: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar and Nepal.
The rest of selected feature films from the focused countries are Khyentse Norbu's Hema Hema: Sing Me A Song While I Wait (2016), Deepak Rauniyar's Highway (2012), Maung Tin Maung's Mya Ganaing (1934), Midi Z's Return To Burma (2011), Min Bahadur Bham's The Black Hen (2015) and The Maw Naing's The Monk (2014).
Earlier, the Open Doors authority announced that Bangladeshi filmmakers Ishtiaque Zico’s Cinema, City and Cats and Kamar Ahmad Simon’s Day After Tomorrow have been selected for the Open Doors Hub, which mean these two film projects will compete for the Open Doors prize worth $49,000.
Besides, three Bangladeshi directors-producers, including Aadnan Imtiaz Ahmed of Kino-Eye Films, Abu Shahed Emon of Batayan Productions and Rubaiyat Hossain of Khona Talkies, have been selected to take part in the Open Doors Lab which brings over a group of producers and directors for training and personalised support.
