Ummid Ashraf

Homicide detective Kaiser Chowdhury takes on a double murder that turns out to be much more than what meets the eye. Plagued by personal and professional demons, will Kaiser be able to get to the root of the mystery?

In a flood-ravaged village struggling with political chaos, love and activism spark a revolution that unites a fractured community against corruption and despair.

‘Dui Shaw’ is the modern revival of the mysterious and lurid plots of traditional South Asian folk tales told from generation to generation. A sequel series to ‘Pett Kata Shaw’, Dui Shaw delves into the horrors of the present instead of the folktales of old.

The night takes a strange turn in Dhaka as a ride-sharing motorcyclist tries to reach his next passenger in time.

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.

In the quiet simplicity of their lives, seven-months pregnant Maloti Rani and sanitary shop salesman Polash Das find solace and love, despite their ongoing hardship. Maloti's world shatters when a mall blast claims her husband Polash in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Unsure of her unborn child's future, she battles her in-laws and society, fighting to prove Polash's accidental death.

The word kewaaj (কেওয়াজ) is colloquially used to explain chaos, noisiness or annoyance. "Kewaaj" is an audiovisual attempt to give you a glimpse into how the people of Dhaka function in one of the most unliveable cities, according to the Global Liveability Index.

A married man's unexpected bodily reaction, at the wrong time and in the wrong place, plunges him into a midlife crisis, forcing him to confront his identity and desires.

A short film that uncovers the hidden truths of the Hijra community, struggling to navigate through a society that has all but rejected them. We follow the intrinsic lives of three trans women who forge different relationships within society.

A romantic satire comedy written and directed by Nuhash Humayun.

A paranoid young man, convinced a bug he swallowed is living in his stomach, embarks on a darkly absurd quest with his friend to find relief before his mind and body spiral out of control.

A theatre artist’s spiritual journey to embody “Kute Kahar,” a low-caste palanquin-bearer. As Pankaj Chowdhury immerses himself in Kahar’s life - through physical labor, voice, and nature - the line between role and reality fades.

Farhana's seemingly content marriage hides her longing for a deeper connection. A chance encounter with another woman, Nisha, ignites the spark within Farhana. She is forced to confront her true desires and navigate a world that is hostile to LGBTQ identities. When Nisha's sudden departure coincides with a life-changing revelation from Farhana's husband, Farhana must deal with love, loss, and discouragement. She must face her authenticity in the face of societal pressure.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Washington, D.C., swings from a ghost town to a protest epicenter. Sergei Kostin, a local activist moves between these extremes daily. His days are split between the roaring chaos of street demonstrations and the tender moments with his aging dog, Snoball. Against the backdrop of a divisive election that brings thousands to the heart of America's capital, Sergei faces a more intimate challenge - the painful preparation to say goodbye to his beloved dog.

Noor, a fifth-grade student, desires to buy a new pair of sneakers, but he doesn't have the money to do so. However, he has a pair of "Lakkha" (pigeons). Now he starts a journey to sell his pigeons

Tabassum’s Khudi Bari (Bengali for “tiny house”) is an example of a modular mobile home that, in Bangladesh, is inexpensive, durable, and relatively quick and easy to assembled and disassembled with minimum labor, taking advantage of a rigid space-frame structure to save goods and lives in the wake of flash floods on tiny “desert islands” of sand known as “chars” that precariously dot across the Bengal delta. Land is fluid on the floodplains of Bangladesh, and these islands often break off and erode into the water, forcing people to physically move their home. Khudi Bari reminds us to look to locally rooted knowledge to innovate solutions for uncertain futures. Desert X has commissioned a film about the project in which Tabassum addresses dry and wet cultures and the role of design in enabling life in some of the world’s most extreme climate conditions.

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.

In Bangladesh, a tannery worker searches for an apartment but when landlords request ‘foreigners only,’ he finds a grisly solution.

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.

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.