Story
Culture shock as romcom – with the Bengali director playing himself with loads of charm and self-irony. Phaim, a 22-year old Muslim with Bengali roots, lives with his family in Torpignattara, the Muslim quarter of Rome. He earns a living as a custodian in a museum and sings in a band. At a concert he gets to know Asia, a young woman from an artistic family, who ticks completely differently to him: pure instinct, no rules. The pair fall in love – and Phaim is plunged into a dilemma: he’s really supposed to marry a Bengali woman. And how is he supposed to square his relationship with the incontravertible tenet of Islam: no sex before marriage?
Director
PHAIM BHUIYAN (*1995) studied at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan and worked as assistant director on several films. Following a series of music videos and an episode of the Italian TV series Yoroi (2017) Bangla is his debut feature.Trailer
Info
Bangla
Fiction Feature
Italian, Bengali
Kaleidoscope | FF2019
Italy
2019
87 min
OV with German subtitles
Phaim Bhuiyan
Phaim Bhuiyan, Vanessa Piccarelli
Phaim Bhuiyan, Pietro Sermonti, Carlotta Antonelli, Simone Liberati
Domenico Procacci, Annamaria Morelli
Simone D'Onofrio
Roberto Di Tanna
Dario Lanzellotti
Mauro Vanzati
Fandango
Fandango; Timvision
Daniela Staffa, Fandango: daniela.staffa@fandango.it