Bangladeshi short film ‘20 Continuous Shots Followed by Siddharth’ written and directed by Abid Hossain Khan and produced by Khona Talkies has been selected for the International Competition of the 26th edition of Curta Cinema Festival, one of the top film festivals of the world solely dedicated to short films. The film will have its world premiere at the festival.

Also known as Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival, the Curta Cinema Festival will be held from November 3 to 9, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

‘The main purpose of the Festival Curta Cinema has always been to present the diversity and vitality of the national and international production of short films to the Brazilian public, highlighting the importance of short films for the establishment of an innovative audiovisual industry,’ festival director Aílton Franco Júnior said in a released statement.

‘This year, we had more than three thousand entries just for the competitive sections and among them 28 films from 21 countries are selcted for the International Competition and 25 Brazilian films are selected for the National Competition.’

The Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival — Curta Cinema qualifies the winners of its National and International Grand Prix to enter the competition for an Oscar nomination by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

 Abid Hossain Khan’s debut short film ‘20 Continuous Shots Followed by Siddharth’ is an experimental film about a young man named Siddhartha who starts living in a slum finding the meaning of his existence in life. He sees the gray livelihood flowing like a sewer, juxtaposed with sounds of newsreel commentary, political speech, religious sermon, etc. while those sounds seem more visible in 20 repeated and morbid shots followed by Siddhartha.

Abid Hossain Khan acted as the main protagonist of the film. Mohammad Raju is the editor and Dibbyo Samadder is the director of photography.

Also, Abid has just finished shooting his second short film produced by Khona Talkies.