He calls his way of filmmaking raw realism: poetic cinema shot on real land, with real water, among the people who live there.
Each of his films began as a poem: his own, or one by a poet he loves.
The Great Departure of Nekabbor. 2014.
Made from Nirmalendu Goon’s poem of the same name. Written and directed by Masud Pathik, who also wrote the lyrics. Produced by Bratya Films (now Bratya Creation).
National Film Award for Best Film and Best Lyricist (“Nishipakkhi”), honoured in six categories in all. Best Director at the International Independent Film Festival, UK, 2016.
2019, 110 minutes. Research, story, dialogue, screenplay, direction and production by Masud Pathik, for Bratya Creation, with a government grant.
Built from true stories of the Birangana women and the war children of 1971, after Shahabuddin Ahmed’s painting “Women” and Kamal Chowdhury’s poem “War Child”.
A record ten National Film Awards in eight categories, including Best Story. Screened at about fifteen festivals, among them Dhaka, Nashik and Delhi, the SAARC Film Festival, the Toronto Multicultural Film Festival and the World Film Festival Kolkata. Best Narrative Feature at the Tagore International Film Festival and Best Narrative Film at the Indo Asian Film Festival.
2026, 87 minutes, 4K. Bengali with English subtitles. On the festival circuit.
A poetic feature drawn from Jibanananda Das’s poem “Eight Years Ago One Day”, about nature, ecofeminism, folk philosophy and the bond between the human unconscious and the living world. Its language is poetic cinema, eco-metaphoric realism and raw realism.
With Ratan Dev, Runa Khan, Saffwan Mahmud, Rejoan Rohan, Grihi Roy, Abraham Tamim, Elina Shammi, Asha Majid Roji and Anto Azad. Cinematography by Samar Dhali, sound by Shoibo Talukder, music by Shamim Mahmud and Masud Pathik, colour by Chinmoy Roy, edited by Jak Jakir. Story, screenplay and direction by Masud Pathik; co-writer Areeb Anusurzzo. Produced by Bratya Creation, co-sponsored by GRRIPP, London.
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Two features are moving toward the camera.
Feature, about 75 minutes, without dialogue. Shooting from December 2026.
An orphan named Tamim has no one but his red bullock. A wordless, magic-realist film about hunger, kindness and the people a village forgets, told on a single stretch of land across past and present.
Feature screenplay, 44 scenes, about 93 minutes. In development.
A gold-medal seed scientist loses his job, his wife and his son, and goes home to sow a nearly extinct rice. It yields eight maunds a bigha against the hybrid’s thirty. A hundred-year-old tree is sold for the price of a mother’s surgery, and the man who would not let it go stops speaking.
Twenty-eight feature screenplays in development, including the two above. The August received a government grant and is paused for now. Scripts and treatments are available to producers, labs and funds on request.
Feature screenplay, about 100 minutes. In development.
A blind girl, a piece of land and the weight of a signature. Set in a Dhaka boarding house, a sculpture studio and a mango orchard.