"Always be a poet even in prose"

Amitabha Chaterji is an independent filmmaker from India.His debut feature film 'AMI O

MANOHAR' ('MANOHAR & I') received the Best Debut Film award at the International Film

Festival of Kerala 2018. The film also won the Best Feature Film award at the Pondicherry

International Film Festival 2019 & the Best Debut award nomination at Jaffna International

Cinema Festival 2019. 'MANOHAR & I' has also been officially selected in some of the most

prestigious film festivals like San Diego Asian Film Festival 2019, Diorama International Film

Festival 2019, Third Eye Asian Film Festival 2019 etc. Now showing on MUBI.British Film

Institute includes this film in '10 GREAT FILMS SET IN KOLKATA'.

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His second feature film 'INTO THE MIST' is a political satire. The film got selected in the

prestigious International Film Festival of Kerala 2022, International Film Festival of Thrissur 2022,

Kolkata International Film Festival 2022, Tasveer South Asian film festival etc, Cine Pobre Film

festival,Mexico. Edo International Film Festival,Nigeria etc. The film won 3 International awards in

Sipontum Arthouse International Film Festival Italy. 

 

His third feature film, "ADIM (PRIMITIVE)," explores the profound loneliness within our relationships. It made its world premiere at the prestigious  46th Moscow International Film Festival in competition.

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