Mostafa Monwar

Acting

Mostafa Monwar

Mostafa Monwar (born Mostafa Monwar Al-Azim) is a Bangladeshi actor and screenwriter known for starring as the protagonist in Live from Dhaka, for which he received 2016 Singapore International Film Festival awards for Best Performance. In 2011, Mostofa Monwar made his film debut in Guerrilla. In 2016, he starred as Sazzad in Live from Dhaka. In 2017, he acted in the TV series Chabial Reunion. In 2018, his third film Sincerely Yours, Dhaka released. In 2019, he starred in Hoichoi series Dhaka Metro. In 2019, he also acted as Sohel in the film Made in Bangladesh. In 2020, Monwar starred as Selim in another Hoichoi series Ekattor. In July 2021, he acted as Sabila's husband Arif in ZEE5 series Ladies & Gentleman. In the same month, he appeared as Kabir in Chorki anthology series Unoloukik. In October 2021, he was cast as the ambulance driver in No Ground Beneath the Feet. In December 2021, he portrayed Zahir Raihan in another Chorki series Jaago Bahey, for which he got Channel I Digital Media Award 2021 as the Best Emerging Actor of the year. In June 2023, he starred in the film Surongo.

Acting credits

Live from Dhaka poster
7.3

In a series of vignettes, a partially handicapped man lives his days in anguish as he tries to find a way to leave Dhaka.

Live from Dhaka

2019

Gulmohar poster
NR

Set in the aftermath of a family patriarch’s death, Gulmohor explores the tangled web of family secrets, inheritance disputes, and emotional conflict. As hidden truths surface, the family faces growing internal tensions, forcing them to confront unresolved traumas and betrayals.

Gulmohar

2025

Saba poster
6.0

With her father missing, Saba is the sole caregiver to her paraplegic mother, Shirin, who suffers from acute heart disease. Although Shirin's condition binds them together, her frustration with their situation often manifests as bitterness and anger towards her daughter, so they live in their own separate worlds. When Shirin has a heart attack, Saba races against time to sell their home, lowering the price, and even risking her burgeoning romance with her senior co-worker Ankur — who dreams of starting a new life abroad — to pay for her mom’s heart surgery.

Saba

2024

Surongo poster
7.0

Moyna and Masud's marriage takes a tumultuous turn when their differing desires clash. While Masud leaves for Malaysia, Moyna seeks comfort in the arms of another man. Can they start afresh?

Surongo

2023

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

Sincerely Yours, Dhaka poster
7.5

In this omnibus, 11 Bangladeshi filmmakers create a love letter to the city of Dhaka. From young girls looking for a drink in a dry town to a bank scammer's attempted murder to a plumber creating a refugee crisis, the city co-stars every time.

Sincerely Yours, Dhaka

2019

No Ground Beneath the Feet poster
NR

Set in the backdrop of the scathing consequences of climate change, an impoverished ambulance driver Saiful staggers between two wives while he sets out on a bone-tired journey of moral decay, murder, deception, and social bashing.

No Ground Beneath the Feet

2021

An Apple Tree Inside the Head poster
NR

Montu Mridha’s wife and son live in a trance, often disappearing. Montu believes they are possessed, spending days searching for them and trying to cure them with holy apples.

An Apple Tree Inside the Head

2024

Sand City poster
9.0

Emma and Hasan don’t know each other, but they have much in common. Most importantly, they are both sand thieves. Emma steals it for kitty litter, Hasan for making homemade glass. One day, their lives are disrupted by the discovery of a severed finger, and they learn that the human psyche can shatter as easily as glass…

Sand City

2025

Guerrilla poster
7.3

Bilkis Banu lost her husband Hasan on the night of 25th March 1971. She tries to forget him and concentrate on the urban guerrilla movements of Dhaka with Altaf Mahmud, Shahadat, Mrs Khan and many more. But when spies and the razakars inform them, most of their people get arrested and Bilkis has to run for her life, towards her village.

Guerrilla

2011

Gunin poster
NR

The movie is about the clash among two brothers in an eternal love triangle followed by the mysterious death of their grandfather Razab Ali Guning, a village exorciser.

Gunin

2022

Lights, Camera...Objection poster
NR

Second episode of the anthology series 'Jaago Bahey', set in 1970s Bangladesh. A filmmaker is put under the trial of the Pakistani Censor board. The regime tries to control both the artist and the art. Will he succumb to their demand?

Lights, Camera...Objection

2021

Foreigners Only poster
4.0

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

Foreigners Only

2023

No artwork available
NR

The film is based on the life of Martyred Intellectual Shahidullah Kaiser and Panna Kaiser.

Digante Phuler Agun

Andhar poster
NR

In an isolated house where flowers wilt at a touch and time refuses to move in a straight line, a fragile young widow begins a new life, with a much older husband, she can't quite trust - haunted by warnings, watched by something patient, and carrying a secret that isn't only her own. When an impossible death draws a sharp-witted detective into the house's orbit, he finds a place that bends memory, guards an ancient purpose, and refuses to let anyone leave unchanged. What waits beneath is older than the walls, and the answer, when it comes at dawn, will reach further than anyone expects.

Andhar

2026