Sayba Talukder

On a foggy winter journey, the Bonolota Express carries strangers burdened by secrets whose lives begin to collide within the train’s confined corridors. As the night unfolds, personal and political crises erupt, exposing hidden grief, moral decay, and moments of unexpected compassion amid chaos and revolt. By dawn, the train moves on, leaving its passengers irrevocably changed by a single journey where illusions collapse and human truths emerge.

The political ambition of a Bangladeshi teacher corrodes both community and self, as corruption takes hold.

An assistant professor at a medical college balances her roles as a professional, a mother and a teacher. Her life changes once she witnesses an unexpected incident involving a female student.

A rural guy who comes to the city with a dream of becoming a filmmaker. The struggles of reaching his dream are depicted.

Antu, Riyad, Nayan are three very close cousins. After Riyad's marriage, a relationship develops between Antu and Riyad's wife Trina, and eventually turns into love. This creates a rift in the family. What will end this distance of family?

Famous musician Sohel is found dead in his bedroom. His wife Neela was sleeping peacefully when the body is discovered. Sohel's childhood friend detective Rashed took charge of the investigation. Although Neela seems to be the prime suspect, everyone around Shohel is not telling the truth. When the present is not serving Rashed anything fruitful, he dives into the past. Unsetting events start to unveil and we learn that lie is nothing but a badly expressed truth. How Sohel was killed?

After completing her MBBS, Irin unexpectedly arrives at a remote, network-less tea estate in Sylhet, where healthcare depends mostly on paracetamol. Her friend Mithu, an aspiring artist and architecture student, joins her from Dhaka. There, they discover the harsh realities of tea workers’ lives and meet Nandini, a bright girl who dreams of becoming a doctor. Together, they help her chase that dream.

Being arrogant, Tania’s first instinct might be to reject the proposal without giving it much thought. However, upon realizing that the man she misunderstood as a car driver is actually interested in marrying her, Tania may feel compelled to reassess her previous judgment of him.

Two parallel lives, separated by five decades—one enduring the struggles of the 1971 Liberation War, the other facing challenges in modern times. As their stories intertwine, both discover the strength of resilience.

A Bangladeshi mystery-thriller film

Second anthological short from Pett Kata Shaw. Based on the folklore that Jinns are attracted to sweets and invade sweet shops at night. A Jinn appears to sweet shop named 'Mishti Kichu' and asks for sweets to its forgetful owner.

During lockdown, Mohin finds comfort in a radio. But it suddenly stops. Determined to fix it, he discovers surprising truths about his past.

Rumana, a 23-year-old housewife, has only one task before nightfall: take her drunk husband home. If she fails, something horrifying is waiting for her.

A boy with hearing loss, made an outcast by others, makes a friend on a bicycle-taxi they go to school with. But the friend also has problems of his own.

He builds with light. He shapes with earth. A life carved in concrete, silence, and conviction.

Three girls try to flee their village to escape the superstitions and fanatic hostility surrounding them. Only the blind girl makes it out, finding herself face-to-face with an elephant.

Memories and Miseries follows the introspective journey of a soul who is caught between divinity and the complications of human emotion. Lying by the riverside, the soul revisits scattered periods of its life: one as a writer exploring the human condition and another as a priest scarred by war. Through abstract visuals and fragmented narratives, the film explores the interwoven threads of memory, fate and the eternal struggles between transcendence and suffering. Each life, a moment in the soul’s quest for meaning, leaves behind traces of joy, pain and redemption. Memories and Miseries offers a meditative experience that captures the duality of existence- the profound connection between spirituality and deeply misunderstood human memory and identity.