MUMBAI: Director Bedabrato Pain‘s Chittagong has been garnering a lot of interest worldwide, with international distribution companies showing interest in the film, paving way for a bigger release.

The film, in all probability, would travel to film festivals like Cannes, Berlin, Toronto and Venice next year.

Set in the 1930s British India, Chittagong is a real life story of a 14-year old boy, Jhunku Roy and his journey to find where he belongs. Roy, who had without any thinking, had joined the freedom movement. After he was called a traitor by his peers, Roy was forced to confront doubts of his inner self as his world had turned upside down by then.

Co-produced by Shonali Bose, who had earlier directed Amu, the film has Manoj Bajpai and Barry John in pivotal roles.