October’s Contemporary World Film Series puts the spotlight on Something Like an Autobiography, a film that feels as personal as its title suggests. Directed by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, Bangladesh’s pioneer of new-wave cinema, and starring his wife Nusrat Imrose Tisha – the country’s most recognisable screen presence – the project blurs the lines between art and lived reality. Written together during lockdown, the script folds their own marriage into fiction, with Farooki stepping in front of the camera for the first time opposite Tisha. The title itself nods to Akira Kurosawa’s memoir, a quiet homage to one of Farooki’s great influences. It’s a work born of confinement yet expansive in reach, a film about intimacy that has already started to ripple far beyond its origin.
October 25. B20 at the door for non-TK Park members. Reserve via filmforum17@gmail.com. TK Park, Central World, 4pm