Talent Guide

Nuhash Humayun

  • Discipline:Director, Writer
  • Program Year:Fast Track 2021, Grants and Awards 2021

Bio

Nuhash Humayun is a writer, director, and visual artist based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He made his theatrical debut with the anthology film Sincerely Yours, Dhaka (2018) which premiered at the Busan International Film Festival and enjoyed a successful festival run, currently acquired by Netflix. Nuhash is also a fellow of the Asian Film Academy 2019, directing the LGBTQ drama Lipstick (2019). Nuhash’s upcoming debut narrative feature Moving Bangladesh has been selected for Film Independent’s Producer Lab 2022, Cannes Marche du Film 2021, Locarno Film Festival’s Open Doors Consultancy 2020 and NFDC Film Bazaar Coproduction Market 2020.

Current Project

Moving Bangladesh

Logline

Sick of being stuck in traffic – and in life – a struggling middle-class Bangladeshi entrepreneur creates a motorcycle-based ridesharing app that may change transport in developing cities, such as Dhaka, forever but must first overcome his family’s skepticism and a hostile political environment.