Mohaiemen & Sagar in conversation w/ Dr Sanghita Sen • Part 2

Part 2 of a BFMAF screening and conversation series between filmmakers Naeem Mohaiemen and Molla Sagar, facilitated by Dr Sanghita Sen, Assistant Professor in Film, Department of Arts, Northumbria University, Newcastle.
Films discussed include:

Bhobar Vita

• Director: Molla Sagar
• Country: Bangladesh
• Year: 2025

Born as twins in the heart of Dhaka in 1925, two lives are slowly unstitched by he Partition of 1947 that carves a border across Bengal. Across multiple perspectives, Bhobar Vita drifts through the fractured geographies of the old city, tracing how displacement seeps into art, the persistence of memory, and how home endures as both wound and inheritance.

A Missing Can of Film

• Director: Naeem Mohaiemen
• Countries: Bangladesh, United Kingdom, United States
• Year: 2025

Mohaiemen traces the rumour of an unfinished film concealed in a can of flour, circling the memory of Zahir Raihan – a communist filmmaker and public intellectual who disappeared in the aftermath of the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. Intercutting fragments of Raihan’s work with footage shot at the Bangladesh Film Development Corporation after the 2024 Student Uprising, he probes the political architecture of the archive, where analog ghosts persist, flickering at the inflection point of digital amnesia.

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