| TITLE OF THE FILM | The Professor (Jyotirmoy) |
| DIRECTED BY | Sandip Kumar Mistry |
| LANGUAGE | Bengali (English subtitles) |
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COUNTRY | Bangladesh |
| DURATION | 72 minutes |
| SPECIAL NOTE | International Premiere |
PRINCIPAL CREW & CAST
| WRITING, EDITING, MUSIC | Sandip Kumar Mistry |
| RESEARCH | Meghna Guhathakurta |
| CINEMATOGRAPHY | Shanu Manik, NM Rasu, Anamoy Bera |
| LOCATION SOUND | Shanu Manik, NM Rasu |
| PRINCIPAL CAST | Meghna Guhathakurta, Seerajul Islam Chowdhury, Kajal Bandyopadhyay, Krishna Dutta |
ABOUT THE FILM
Dr. Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta, Professor of English and the Provost of Jagannath Hall was among those–students, teachers and employees–of the University of Dhaka who sacrificed their lives in the Liberation War of Bangladesh. On the night of March 25, 1971, the talented and philanthropic professor fell to a brutal massacre carried out by the Pakistani Army in Dhaka in the name of ‘Operation Searchlight’. Was it just a simple murder of a university professor? And what kind of a person was Jyotirmoy?
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Sandip Kumar Mistry is a documentary filmmaker from Bangladesh. An alumnus of Dhaka University in Bangladesh and Rabindra Bharati University in India, Sandip took a filmmaking course from Bangladesh Film Institute (BFI) and a digital filmmaking workshop from Moviyana Film Society. His documentaries include ‘Jyotirmoy’ (The Professor), ‘Mujibnagar’ (The First Government of Bangladesh) and ‘Apon Aloy’ (Way of Ascension). He is currently working on a documentary on the history of women’s movement in Bengal.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
“In this film, I intend to throw light on the 1971 genocide in Bangladesh, and on the significance of martyred intellectuals.”
