Debashis Das
Directing
Biography
Debashis Das is a filmmaker, Scriptwriter who was born on July 1, 1991, in Gazipur, Bangladesh. He started practicing drama, recitation, debate, and music in college. Then he started trying to make short films from the time he was studying at Bangladesh Agricultural University. He has been awarded as ‘Zahir Raihan Best Short’ by the renowned filmmaker in Bangladesh Tareq Masood (late) for the Short film named 'Nun'. He started the two-year 'Filmmaking Training' course at the Bangladesh Cinema and Television Institute (BCTI). During the course, he made a few short films and they earned some honors both inside and outside the country. The film "The Ballad of a Geek", which he made at an international film festival among the film schools of the world, Inspired by the famous writer Akhtaruzzaman Elias' story "Niruddesh Jatra", Das made his final diploma movie "Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit" and it got first place in the integrated merit list. His ongoing film project is ‘Mukuler Jadur Ghora’ which revolves around a child’s fantasy journey received the national film grant in the 2019-20 fiscal year.
Known For

The story of a child who explores and discovers an outside-world by riding a magical white horse through various places and tribes with many odds and challenges.
Mukuler Jadur Ghora

It was experimentation on a particular topic and that was "whatever I see out of my window". a spiritually associated montage.
Orchestra of Being

a boy, a horseman, and a suicidal girl are in motion except the trees.
Tableau Vivant
Five long take experimentation, Director's Tribute to Abbas Kiarostami.
FIVE
A short film about an old village woman who becomes a street beggar, This is the first published short film by DEBASHIS DAS a student of Bangladesh Agricultural University which has got the "ZAHIR RAIHAN BEST SHORT "3rd award from the international inter-university short film festival 2011, a
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an old man and a little child in the same room in the afternoon, both sleeping. Old man experiences dreams about the truth of long lived life and when he wakes up he finds the baby still sleeping.
Selection of Symphony

2nd film of Debashis Das Lockdown Pocket Cinema Project during COVID pandemic.
Dohai Doyal

Gittu, an introverted milkman, regularly goes to an abandoned local temple to smoke cigarettes after performing his duty of delivering milk from door to door. While smoking cigarettes in solitude, he gets to know the secret of the temple.
The Ballad of the Geek

First film school practice film on a tour in bandarban. Exploring the ethnic peoples and their lives from the point of view of a traveler and he wonders about anything.
Listening You, My Sole Offerings

Ranju is a melancholic character. He resides in an old house with his elderly parents in a small town. It is as if the past memories of his ancestors lodged in his body. It is as if he were reincarnated. He finds it particularly difficult to sleep on rainy nights. On rainy nights memories of past lives awakes - his boyhood, his national past; his vision gets distorted, he couldn't help leaving the house. He seeks to escape from this troubled, hectic, suffocating modern world. He seeks peace on the paths, past memory ladened old walls, on the face of common people of this land, ancient trees. This journey is to absolve his burdened parents, to emancipate himself. It is a journey into the void.
Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit
Lockdown Pocket Cinema Project during COVID pandemic.
Pink Dolphin

'Nature, Color & Poetry' is a sensory immersion into the shifting rhythms of the Bengal landscape, where the interplay of light and color serves as the primary language of human existence. The documentary moves beyond mere observation, evolving into a poetic journey of transformation that traces the dawn-to-dusk cycle of an agricultural community deeply rooted in its environment. The film begins with the gentle awakening of the earth—the silver mist of morning and the golden emergence of the first ray. As the sun ascends, the visual palette transforms from the soft pastels of dew-laden pastures to the shimmering mercury of the river at noon. As a formal experiment in capturing time within space, the documentary utilizes layering the asynchronous sounds of daily activities over static, painting-like compositions. This technique invites the audience to experience lives and moments audibly while the visual remains suspended, creating a lyrical synthesis of man and nature.