Three Bengali films in Sydney film fest

Bengali Cinema is on a roll and it’s time for

Sydney

. Recently, six Bengali films were selected for the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne and now three Bengali arthouse films —

White

,

Jonaki

and

Garbage

— have made it to the Indian Film Festival of Sydney.
The three films had already been in the news for getting screened in reputed film fests the world over. White by Aneek Chaudhuri was premiered in market section of Cannes and was the official selection in Vienna, Melbourne, Ireland, Boston, and other parts of Europe.

Said Aneek, “White has been doing well, but more importantly Bengali Cinema is doing great. It feels great to bear the flag of our region on international grounds. We, as a team, feel that this marks the unity in Bengali films when our cinema is being acclaimed worldwide.”
Jonaki is Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s second film which was premiered at Rotterdam International film fest. Q’s Garbage was screened for the first time at Berlinale and, also was a part of Buncheon and Seattle.

The Indian film festival of Sydney begins on August 17, around the same time at IIFM.