FILM

LATA AHMED is a female Bangladeshi film maker who used a range of aesthetic styles to explore the social, economical, political and cultural realities. She directs both feature and documentary films. Her skill as a multidisciplinary artist led her to use arts, crafts, music and film as the language for her social activism.

Her feature film PALAI PALAI is a film for children, with participation of children, screened in March 2000. All players of this film are children. The main focus of the film is crisis of urban children, such as, class difference, expression of views, participation in decision-making, right of play, etc. She also directed documentary films namely Nonstop Ball, Childhood, etc. She also worked and documented on Professor Abdur Razzaq, first National Professor of Bangladesh; Abdul Matin, known as Language Movement Matin; eminent Philosopher Professor Sardar Fazlul Karim; Philosopher Khaled Chowdhury and so on.

Films and Documentaries directed by Lata Ahmed:

1996     : Childhood

1999     : Gyanbrikkha

2000     : Palai Palai

2006     : Non Stop Ball

2015     : Shohagir Goyna

2019     : Pankaj Pathshala