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END OF 14 DAYS

14 DIN SESE

By Sudipta KUNDU

LGBT - Completed 2024

On their last day of quarantine, Bhola and Abbas the two migrant workers returning to Bangladesh from India wish for never-ending isolation

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- LGBT
- Countries
- BANGLADESH, INDIA, UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- BENGALI
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 15 mn
- Director(s)
- Sudipta KUNDU
- Writer(s)
- Sudipta KUNDU
- Cast
- Kaushik PAUL, Murshed AKANDA
- Producer(s)
- Masroor MALWA, Sudipta KUNDU, Neeraj CHURI (LOTUS VISUAL PRODUCTIONS), Masroor MALWA (S S Multimedia)
- Synopsis
- During the pandemic, Bhola and Abbas, two young labourers, returning from India to their village in Bangladesh after cycling 1500 Kms, are forced to quarantine themselves in jungle at the outskirts of their village. Their fellow traveller, an old man, another labourer, has been hospitalized in critical condition after several-day-long arduous cycling. On the very last day of their quarantine, the two friends, worried about their only ally who understood them, hope for ever-lasting isolation.
  
  Additionally, Film was conceived in Sylheti accent of Bengali.
  
  This project was a part of a Script LAB held in Bangladesh mentored by Giovanni Robiano.
  
  Director Biography - Sudipta Kundu
  An independent Indian filmmaker, Sudipta Kundu (artistic name: Sudipto Kundu) has directed, produced, and co-produced a couple of documentaries and short-fictions. The documentary film Ladli, produced and directed by Sudipta, got the best short documentary film award at the Kasish International Queer Film Festival, the best documentary film award at the Diorama International Film Festival, the QDrishti film grant at Kasish, the Indian National Award for best film on social issues, and number of other nominations and awards. Ladli was selected for the Docedge Kolkata pitching lab in 2016. His short documentary films Coffee With Positivity and Tales of Another Radha selected for various film festivals. Charet; An Unfinished Story got the Fur Lotus Award from the Dalai Lama Foundation in the PSBT Film Challenge. His first short fiction, "End of Fourteen Days," is ready for festival submission. "A Sacred Life" is his first feature film as a director and is in the development stage, which was part of a lab mentored by Italian film educator, Locarno festival programmer Giovanni Robiano. His current documentary project, Tales of Gopis has been selected for Docedge Kolkata pitching lab in 2024.