Humaira Bilkis is a Dhaka based documentary filmmaker. Her films have been screened internationally. Her documentary “I Am Yet to See Delhi” has achieved a special mention by jury at New Asian Currents in Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Japan, 2015. She just completed “Garden of Memories” based on her long-term relationship with the migrated tea plantation workers of north-east Bangladesh.
Her interest in filmmaking is anthropocentric and she is interested in finding fictional qualities in a non-fiction genre by using creative treatment of actuality. Currently, she is working on her documentary "Bilkis and Bilkis", based on her relationship with her mother in the changing context of Bangladeshi society. She is an alumni of Docedge Kolkata, Dhaka Doc Lab and Berlinale Talent Campus.
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