Focus: Mohaiemen + Sagar
At the invitation of BFAMF, Naeem Mohaiemen has curated a selection of Molla Sagar’s films that he considers to be in dialogue with his films. This selection reflects two decades of friendship and conversation between the two Bangladeshi filmmakers. Their exchanges include “The River you Never Knew” (in Mohaiemen’s book Midnight’s Third Child, 2023), a critical engagement with Sagar’s riverine oeuvre, and “Raihan-Ghatak-Tarkovsky” (2026), a threading of Sagar on Ritwik Ghatak and Mohaiemen on Zahir Raihan.
Intimate portraits of everyday life and struggle in Bangladesh speak together with playful, inter-textual vignettes exploring the confluence of autobiography and radical history. Together, Naeem Mohaiemen and Molla Sagar‘s films trace how personal memory and political upheaval collide, overlap, and refract across generations.
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Spanning Partition to contemporary Bangladesh, this programme journeys through fractured homes and unfinished films to ask how history lingers in bodies, cities, and celluloid. Between memory and the archives, the works trace disappearance, displacement, and the stubborn afterlives of images in the face of erasure.
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The quiet radiance of everyday acts emerges between a beautiful portrait of a Bangladeshi centenarian and a tender chronicle of a woman choosing a dignified death. This Focus programme touches on themes of ageing, autonomy, and what it means to inhabit—and ultimately release—the body.