Something Like an Autobiography (2023)

Directed by

Mostofa Sarwar Farooki

Genre

autobiography

Country

Bangladesh

Runtime

1h 24m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A filmmaker creates a story that blurs the lines between his own life and fiction. The film questions where reality ends and performance begins. It draws from the director's personal experiences with his wife.

reflectivemetaautobiographicalintimatecontemplativethought-provokingpersonalquietly provocative

What happens

Something Like an Autobiography is a 2023 Bangladeshi film directed by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki. It was part of the Ministry of Love 12-film anthology film series for Bangladeshi streaming platform Chorki. The title of the film, borrowed from Akira Kurosawa's book of same name, resonates with events that question the boundary between reality and fiction from the plot that is presumed by Variety to be inspired from Farooki and his wife Nusrat Imrose Tisha's personal lives. The film was produced by Redoan Rony and co-produced by Anna Katchko, former Film Bazaar chief Nina Lath, Nusrat Imrose Tisha and Farooki. It was co-written by Farooki and Tisha. It marked Farooki's on-screen debut. The film used Sync sound technique and the Film mixing engineer of this film is Silajit Chakraborty . Something Like an Autobiography completed and had its world premiere at the 'Kim Jiseok' section of the 28th Busan International Film Festival on 8 October 2023. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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