Date: 01 Feb 2026

Thank you for submitting your work to the open call for the Midnight’s Third Child project. Since issuing the original call, we have decided to shift the focus of the project toward developing a new website that will serve as a long-term resource for moving image practices in Bangladesh and the Bangladeshi diaspora.

The website will feature online exhibitions, commissioned writing, and a growing database of artists and works. We have contacted each applicant individually regarding the selection categories.

As we aim to expand and strengthen this community, if your work has not been selected for screening at this stage, we would still like to include your profile and work information in the website’s database. This will act as a resource for researchers, programmers, and curators interested in Bangladeshi moving image practices worldwide.

If you would like to be included, please send the following materials to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

• Full name
• Portrait photograph
• Artist biography (maximum 200 words)
• Website and social media links (if available)
• Filmography / list of moving image works with production dates

Please let us know if you are interested, and we look forward to hearing from you.

Date: 19 Mar 2026

Proud to be supporting the special focus programme at Berwickfilmfest this weekend at Filmmakers in Focus session. A dialogue between the films of Naeem Mohaiemen and Molla Sagar. Marking the beginning of Midnight’s Third Child (inspired by Mohaiemen’s book of the same title) exploring artists’ moving image in Bangladesh, co-curated by Benjamin Cook and Kehkasha_Sabah with support of British Council Bangladesh Connections through Culture Grant.

Filmmakers in Focus explores the corpus of works by filmmakers who have maintained a responsive and reflective relationship to the moment in which they are working. Drawing on underrepresented experiences, vital histories and moments that are in need of remembrance, these filmmakers offer a remarkable and enduring lens to our world.

At the invitation of BFAMF, Naeem Mohaiemen has curated a selection of Molla Sagar’s films that he considers to be in dialogue with his films. This selection reflects two decades of friendship and conversation between the two Bangladeshi filmmakers. Their exchanges include “The River you Never Knew” (in Mohaiemen’s book Midnight’s Third Child, 2023), a critical engagement with Sagar’s riverine oeuvre, and “Raihan-Ghatak-Tarkovsky” (2026), a threading of Sagar on Ritwik Ghatak and Mohaiemen on Zahir Raihan.

Focus: Mohaiemen + Sagar showcases the breadth of work by Naeem Mohaiemen and Molla Sagar, offering a dialogue between their respective practices and featuring five European Premieres, one UK premiere and one World Festival Premiere.

Original link: https://bfmaf.org/programme/mohaiemen-sagar-1/

Date: 01 April 2026

Discussion Group

A peer-led monthly discussion group for artists, curators, writers, researchers and other arts professionals who work with or are interested in the artists’ moving image in Bangladesh to talk about ideas and practice in a mutually supportive environment.

The group will be led by Benjamin Cook, Curator, Producer and Founder Director of LUX and LUX Scotland the UK agencies for the support of artists working with the moving image who is based in Manchester and London, UK and Kehkasha Sabah, Art Curator, Artist and Researcher, based in Dhaka, Bangladesh as part of their curatorial research project, Midnight’s Third Child which aims to create sustained dialogue around contemporary Bangladeshi moving image practice with support from British Council Bangladesh. 

The group will offer a space to talk about moving image practice in Bangladesh, to network with other practitioners, discuss practice, watch films together and gain support from the group leaders and other members. 

The group will meet online on a monthly basis on zoom, meetings will be conducted in English and participation is free. If you are interested to join next session email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.