Directing

Ashique Mostafa

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Directing

Credits

10 titles

Bangladeshi filmmaker Ashique Mostafa studied film direction and production at the School of Visual Arts in New York. As his graduation film, he made Phulkumar (2002) that was shot in Bangladesh. He subsequently established the Khona Talkies production company and has produced a number of critically acclaimed films. Now Ashique is working on his first observational documentary feature film which is in the post-production stage. He wants to use the camera as a pen to write poetry and visual essays.

Known for

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10.0

A boy orphaned at birth grows up making his flower garden, trancing a flower fairy of that garden as his illusioned mother. Like a fresh flower, he scents the world inside him apart from the realities of society. But when his flower is plucked eventually by the force of his fate, he discovers friendship, love, passion and finally hatred that drowns him, tearing his petals, under the water.

Flower Child

2000

720 Degrees poster
4.7

An uncut shot of a journey taken to discover the various layers of the relationship between man and nature and the different perceptions of reality within two full circles. The short film storytelling technique exploits the strength of non-diegetic sound elements and explores the freedom of framing techniques.

720 Degrees

2010

Made in Bangladesh poster
6.4

Shimu, 23, works in a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Faced with difficult conditions at work, she decides to start a union with her co-workers. Despite threats from the management and disapproval of her husband, Shimu is determined to go on. Together the women must fight and find a way to register their union.

Made in Bangladesh

2019

Meherjaan poster
NR

During the war in 1971, Meher falls in love with a soldier from the enemy side. When her love is discovered, she is shamed and silenced by her family and society. Today 38 years after the war, Meher has a visitor she cannot turn down.

Meherjaan

2011

Interiors & Exteriors poster
NR

A one-take observational piece about the microcosm of Islamic practices and class segregation in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka. Multiplicity within a Muslim community and the passage of people through one single frame documents this society's interiors and exteriors.

Interiors & Exteriors

2018

No artwork available
NR

The culling of dogs and people continues and remains unchallenged.

Birani

2022

Film credits

Behind the camera

No artwork available
10.0

A boy orphaned at birth grows up making his flower garden, trancing a flower fairy of that garden as his illusioned mother. Like a fresh flower, he scents the world inside him apart from the realities of society. But when his flower is plucked eventually by the force of his fate, he discovers friendship, love, passion and finally hatred that drowns him, tearing his petals, under the water.

Flower Child

2000

No artwork available
10.0

A boy orphaned at birth grows up making his flower garden, trancing a flower fairy of that garden as his illusioned mother. Like a fresh flower, he scents the world inside him apart from the realities of society. But when his flower is plucked eventually by the force of his fate, he discovers friendship, love, passion and finally hatred that drowns him, tearing his petals, under the water.

Flower Child

2000

720 Degrees poster
4.7

An uncut shot of a journey taken to discover the various layers of the relationship between man and nature and the different perceptions of reality within two full circles. The short film storytelling technique exploits the strength of non-diegetic sound elements and explores the freedom of framing techniques.

720 Degrees

2010

Made in Bangladesh poster
6.4

Shimu, 23, works in a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Faced with difficult conditions at work, she decides to start a union with her co-workers. Despite threats from the management and disapproval of her husband, Shimu is determined to go on. Together the women must fight and find a way to register their union.

Made in Bangladesh

2019

Interiors & Exteriors poster
NR

A one-take observational piece about the microcosm of Islamic practices and class segregation in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka. Multiplicity within a Muslim community and the passage of people through one single frame documents this society's interiors and exteriors.

Interiors & Exteriors

2018

No artwork available
NR

The culling of dogs and people continues and remains unchallenged.

Birani

2022

No artwork available
NR

A farewell to the generation who grew up making 35mm movies. We watch a mock attempt to produce the last celluloid film in Bangladesh investigating the emotion and nostalgia for the good old days of celluloid cinema that have faded into obsolescence.

Thirty Five

2022