Busan International Film Festival 2018 to host premiere of Rima Das' Assamese feature Bulbul Can Sing

Mumbai: After making its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), National Award-winning filmmaker Rima Das’ next Assamese feature, _Bulbul Can Sing_ is all set to make its South Asia premiere at the 23rd Busan International Film Festival 2018. [caption id=“attachment_5118781” align=“alignnone” width=“825”] Poster of Bulbul Can Sing (left), Rima Das[/caption] The film will be screened in A Window on Asian Cinema section at the event, to be held from 4 to 13 October. The writer-director-producer made the film independently, in the same manner as she did her earlier film, Village Rockstars. In a statement Rima Das said, “It’s a huge honour to return to TIFF after Village Rockstars and start the journey of my next feature, Bulbul Can Sing, which will have its world premiere in the competition category - Contemporary World Cinema. It’s like the homecoming for me." Bulbul Can Sing is a visceral coming-of-age drama about a teenage girl, Bulbul, living in a village in Assam, fighting her way through love and loss as she figures out who she really is. Rima Das’ debut film as a writer-director-producer, Man with Binoculars (Antardrishti), premiered at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2016. _Village Rockstars_, her second feature, has screened at more than 70 renowned film festivals and has won 44 awards, including four National Awards (Best Feature, Best Editing, Audiography and Child Artist).