{"id":391899,"date":"2026-07-30T12:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/391899\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T12:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:45:09","slug":"bengali-film-festival-of-dallas-returns-for-ninth-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/391899\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengali Film Festival of Dallas returns for ninth year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengali Film Festival of Dallas returns for its ninth year this weekend at the\u00a0Angelika Film Center &amp;\u00a0Caf\u00e9. It will be three days full of Bengali cinema, language and culture.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The festival was founded in 2016 and is the only Bengali language film festival in North America. It was created as a nonprofit cultural initiative dedicated to promote Bengali films from Bangladesh and India. During the festival&#8217;s eight-year run, a hundred films have been screened.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s festival will feature eight films, which include short films and feature films. On Friday, short film Fused\u00a0will be playing along with the feature film Utshob\u00a0at 8 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then on Saturday there will be four films playing, including the short film\u00a0Monihara\u00a0and feature film Onibrito\u00a0(Unveiled) at 1:30 p.m. At 8\u00a0p.m., the short film My Comrade and feature film\u00a0Sharthopor will be shown.<\/p>\n<p>The last day of the film festival will feature the short film\u00a0The Sweetness of Air\u00a0and feature film Korpur\u00a0at 5 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>July 31 through August 2 at the Angelika Film Center &amp; Caf\u00e9, 5321 E Mockingbird Lane, Dallas. Tickets are $15. <a href=\"https:\/\/srijonerhut.com\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">srijonerhut.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bengali Film Festival of Dallas returns for its ninth year this weekend at the\u00a0Angelika Film Center &amp;\u00a0Caf\u00e9. It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-391899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}