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A House Named Shahana – A Bangladeshi movie
June 29 @ 9:00 pm - 11:40 pm
A House Named Shahana, a Bangladeshi movie directed by British Bangladeshi director Leesa Gazi, will be featured at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles on June 29, 2024, at 9:00 pm (PDT) at the Landmark Theatres Sunset in Los Angeles, CA.
The film A House Named Shahana (Barir Naam Shahana) is about Dipa, a divorced woman living in a small town in 1990s Bangladesh. The film explores how she overcomes a failed marriage, social taboos, and the burden of family honor through her courage, sense of humor, and fighting spirit.
A House Named Shahana (Barir Naam Shahana)
2023, 137 min, Bangla
Venue:
Landmark Theatres Sunset #1
8000 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90046
About the Director:
Leesa Gazi has dedicated her career to telling stories from women’s perspectives. She is a writer, theater practitioner, and award-winning filmmaker who co-founded the Komola Collective. Gazi directed the multi-award-winning documentary Rising Silence, about the survivors of sexual violence of the Bangladesh Liberation War, and has created several counter-violent extremism shorts for a United Kingdom think tank. In 2023, Amazon Crossing published the English translation of her critically acclaimed Bengali novel Rourob (Good Girls). Gazi’s first feature, A House Named Shahana, won awards at the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival and BFI London Independent Film Festival 2023. She is also a founding member of the Global Survivors’ Network, SEMA.
Tickets: [Use promo code ShahanaIFFLA2024 to get 20% off the ticket price]