| TITLE OF THE FILM | Beyond Boundaries (Tritiyo Bhubon) |
| DIRECTED BY | Biswajit Mitra, Sankhajit Biswas |
| LANGUAGE | Bengali (English subtitles) |
| YEAR | 2024 |
| DURATION | 54 minutes |
| COUNTRY | India, Australia |
| SPECIAL NOTE | Kolkata Premiere |
PRINCIPAL CREW
| WRITING | Sankhajit Biswas, Biswajit Mitra |
| CINEMATOGRAPHY | Biswajit Mitra |
| EDITING | Sankhajit Biswas |
| SOUND DESIGN & MIXING | Sourav Gupta |
| MUSIC | Santajit Chatterjee |
| PRINCIPAL CAST | Kamruzzaman Balark, Moulinath Ganguly, Zahid Repon |
ABOUT THE FILM
Seventy-five long years have separated the Bengali people on two sides of an international border. Kamruzzaman Balark and Moulinath Ganguly, both accomplished theatre actor-directors; one Bangladesh born and the other from India, join forces with eminent theatre director Zahid Repon from Bangladesh to stage Rabindranath Tagore’s timeless play ‘Achalayatan’ (The Petrified Place) in Australia. Can cultural reunification mend the schism created by the historical division of Bengal?
ABOUT THE DIRECTORS
Sankhajit Biswas is an alumnus of SRFTI and Berlinale Talent Campus. Films edited by Sankha have been awarded and screened at major film festivals including Berlin, Toronto, London, Busan, Rotterdam and IDFA. Sankha has directed documentaries that were screened at and won awards at Kolkata Film Festival, IDSFFK and Signs Film Festival Kerala.
Biswajit Mitra is an Indian-born Australian living in Melbourne since 1983. After completing a filmmaking summer school offered through the University of Melbourne, Biswajit made his debut film ‘Gondogol’ (2008).
DIRECTORS’ STATEMENT
“Like many Bengali-origin Indians, our families migrated from East Bengal (now Bangladesh) to West Bengal around the time of the partition of India. Our film parallels the ‘Achalayatan’ journey, to transcend barriers in our minds and to seek reunification in our shared cultural roots in today’s intolerant, conflicted world.”
