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Tale of the Darkest Night
(Shei Rater Kotha Bolte Eshechi)

Directed by KAWSAR CHOWDHURY

Bangladesh, 2001,43 min,DV Color

Tale of the Darkest Night tells the story of the killings by the Pakistani army in Dhaka University. Surviving members and witnesses speak, and bring alive the havoc of that night. The documentary also includes the wireless messages the Pakistani army exchanged that night which a Bengali engineer accidentally stumbled upon and recorded while trying to tune in to the BBC for news of the crackdown in his country.

Best Award In South Asi Film Festival 2003
Best Award Bangladesh Documentary Film Festival 2003
Best Film Award BFJA 2003

Ekattorer Jishu

Jesus 71, directed by Nasiruddin Yusuf, was an important contribution to the fledgling alternative film movement. The film is set during the liberation war in 1971, and centres on the activities of a priest who shelters different groups of people in his church - a group of villagers, a traumatised orphan girl whom he teaches to play the flute, and a unit of freedom fighters - until tragedy strikes. After its international debut in 1994 at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, one critic described the film as "a deeply felt attempt to heal the wounds left by the war. It does this by symbolising the new state and its people as the resurrected body of Christ.