Press
Awards, festival history and materials for programmers, journalists and distributors.
Awards and festivals
More than thirty-nine awards and honours across film and literature.
Film
- 2022“Maya” selected for the Competition for Debut Feature Films, FIPRESCI-India Critics Award, 1st World Film Festival Kolkata, FFSI Eastern Region, Nandan, 20–25 September
- 2022“Maya” selected and screened, 5th Toronto Multicultural Film Festival, Toronto Film Forum, 18–23 July, among 136 films from 49 countries
- 2021“Maya” officially selected, SAARC Film Festival, Sri Lanka
- 2019National Film Award, Bangladesh, Best Story, for “Maya: The Lost Mother”; the film won a record ten National Film Awards in eight categories
- 2016Best Director, International Independent Film Festival, UK, for “Nekabborer Mohaproyan”
- 2016Special Award for Extraordinary Performance as a film director, 15th Tele Cine Award, Tele Cine Society, Nazrul Mancha, Kolkata, June
- 2014National Film Award, Bangladesh, Best Film, for “Nekabborer Mohaproyan”, honoured in six categories in all
- 2014National Film Award, Bangladesh, Best Lyricist, for the song “Nishipakkhi”
- Ritwik Ghatak Award, Kolkata
- Best Narrative Feature, Tagore International Film Festival (online edition), for “Maya”
- Best Narrative Film, Indo Asian Film Festival, for “Maya”
- Special screenings and certificates of appreciation, national and international competition sections, Dhaka International Film Festival
- Recognition for folk heritage, subaltern life and eco-poetic thinking, Kolkata Folk Culture Film Festival
Literature and scholarship
- 2024Honoured inaugurator, Tejgaon College Poetry Festival, Dhaka, 2 May
- 2024Honour from the poets, writers and cultural workers of Narsingdi, on his Bangla Academy Award, for outstanding contribution to literature-based filmmaking
- 2024“Kobitay Bangabandhu” honour from the little magazine “Lok”, given to four young poets alongside Nirmalendu Goon
- 2023Bangla Academy Literary Award, for his contribution to poetry
- 2022PhD, Assam University, on music in the films of Ritwik Ghatak
- 2013Kali o Kolom HSBC Bank Award, for the poetry collection “Ekaki Jomin”
- Speaker, two-day international webinar “Literature, Technology, Cinema”, Department of Bengali, Prafulla Chandra College, Kolkata, 11–12 November, with ICSSR-ERC support
In the press
Reports in the Bengali daily press on the making of Soul of Nature: BOK.
Press materials
Soul of Nature: BOK
Synopses in three lengths, director’s statement, credits, stills, poster and a password-protected screener are available to festivals, press and sales agents.
Hijal: A Character Without a Shadow
Screenplay, project dossier and poster for producers, labs and funds.
Biography in brief
Masud Pathik, PhD, is a Bangladeshi filmmaker, poet and scholar. His films include Nekabborer Mohaproyan (2014, National Film Award for Best Film), Maya: The Lost Mother (2019, ten National Film Awards) and Soul of Nature: BOK (2026). He has published twenty-nine books of poetry, is a former lecturer, holds a PhD in cinematic music on the films of Ritwik Ghatak, leads Bratya Creation and the World Ecology and Autism Film Forum Bangladesh, and received the Bangla Academy Literary Award in 2023.
