Bangla (film)

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Bangla
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Directed by Phaim Bhuyian
Written byPhaim Bhuiyan
Vanessa Picciarelli
Produced by Domenico Procacci
Annamaria Morelli
Starring Phaim Bhuyian
Carlotta Antonelli
Simone Liberati
Pietro Sermonti
Shaila Mohiuddi
Nasima Akhter
Rishad Noorani
Cinematography Simone D'Onofrio
Edited by Roberto Di Tanna
Music by Dario Lanzellotti
Production
companies
Distributed by Fandango
Release date
  • 26 January 2019 (2019-01-26)(IFFR) [1]
Running time
87 minutes
Country Italy
Language Italian

Bangla is a 2019 Italian film directed by Phaim Bhuyian . [2] The film premiered at the 2019 International Film Festival Rotterdam. [3]

Contents

This movie gets the director, Phaim Bhuyian David di Donatello Award for Best New Director in 2020. [4] In 13 April 2022, Bangla - La serie was released on RaiPlay, produced by Fandango and Rai Fiction. A series sequel of the film having the same director, cast and characters. [5]

Plot

The film features the struggles of a 22-year-old man in Rome. Phaim, played by the Director, to balance his Bengali background, the religious restrictions of Islam and Ramadan, with meeting a progressive young Italian girl, 'Asia' with whom he falls in love.

Phaim was born in Rome and in the film he and his friends speak Italian, but his parents are traditional and he does not reveal his relationship to them. He works in a museum, and in his free time, performs with his band at small events.

He meets Asia at his band's first proper gig. Their relationship blossoms and he meets her eccentric family and her friends. But he insults her after getting drunk for the first time. He then discovers his sister and his bandmate are both reluctantly engaged in arranged marriages, and he accepts an arranged date with a Bengali girl, Mala. They joke about their other partners, and nothing else happens between them. His parents decide to move to London, but his ex band-mate who already moved there says life is not great, and he moves back to Rome. This improves the band markedly, and they play a gig at a Bengali wedding, where Phaim fantasizes about Asia while on stage. The next day, at the mosque, the young Imam who had counselled Phaim to leave the sin of a relationship with Asia confesses he was himself in a relationship with an Italian girl who he loves, but is sufferign regret for breaking it off. This precipitates Phaim to run to Asia's apartment where they passionately make out.

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryResultRef.
2019 Hamburg International Film Festival Best ProductionNominated [6]
Italian Film Festival Audience AwardWon [7]
International Film Festival Rotterdam Big Screen AwardNominated [8]
Nastro d'argento Best ComedyWon [9]
Globo d'oro Best First FeatureWon [10] [11]
2020Festival del Cinema EuropeoMario Verdone AwardWon [12]
David di Donatello Best Debut DirectorWon [13]
Best Original ScreenplayNominated [14]

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References

  1. ↑ "IFFR 2019 Programmabijlage by iffr278 - Issuu".
  2. ↑ "Bongo releases Italian movie 'Bangla' November 13". newagebd.net. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
  3. ↑ "IFFR reveals Tiger and Big Screen Competition line-ups". 9 January 2019.
  4. ↑ "David: Phaim Bhuiyan migliore regista esordiente". ansa.it. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  5. ↑ "BANGLA: LA SERIE - DEBUTTA SU RAI 3 LA SERIE TV SEQUEL DEL FILM DEL 2019 VINCITORE DEL NASTRO D'ARGENTO". www.madforseries.it. April 27, 2022.
  6. ↑ https://filmitalia.org/en/festival/33817/
  7. ↑ https://festadocinemaitaliano.com/noticias/o-melhor-do-cinema-italiano-regressa-a-almada
  8. ↑ https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2019/films/bangla
  9. ↑ "Nastri d'Argento 2019: «Bangla» di Phaim Bhuiyan è la commedia dell'anno". Corriere della Sera. 29 June 2019. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  10. ↑ https://www.romatoday.it/eventi/globo-d-oro-premiazioni.html
  11. ↑ "Phaim Bhuiyan - Awards". IMDb.
  12. ↑ https://www.festivaldelcinemaeuropeo.com/2020/en/mario-verdone-award/
  13. ↑ "Bellocchio and his Traitor triumph at the David di Donatello awards. Best newcomer the 24-year-old Bhuiyan". www.finestresullarte.info.
  14. ↑ "David di Donatello 2020, le nomination". GQ Italia. February 18, 2020.


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