Nuruzzaman Khan

Nuruzzaman Khan is a Bangladeshi filmmaker, artist, and Artistic Researcher at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. He recently completed his doctoral defense with cum laude distinction and is currently awaiting the formal issuance of his doctoral certificate. His work critically examines the fragile boundary between truth and fiction in documentary cinema, questioning whether film can ever represent reality without constructing it through perception, ideology, and emotion.

For Nuruzzaman, documentary filmmaking is not a pursuit of objective truth but a reflective space where personal experience, political structures, and ethical responsibility intersect. His research and films explore how narratives around migration, refugees, and identity can both reveal lived realities and function as instruments of distortion or propaganda. This tension forms the core of his artistic and academic inquiry.

He is a recipient of the Erasmus Mundus Scholarship for his master’s studies and the Hungarian Government Scholarship for his doctoral research. As part of his doctoral project, he developed three films that interrogate the porous relationship between truth and fiction, alongside a written thesis reflecting on process, technology, and the ethics of representation—deeply informed by his own experience as a migrant.

His films blend documentary and narrative storytelling. Before the Pandemic and War, There Were Bed Bugs and Love! is an intimate reflection on love, displacement, and isolation amid global crises. The film has received five international awards and screened at over 25 film festivals worldwide. His earlier film, Men with No Name, was selected for Hot Docs in 2018 and screened internationally, portraying the quiet precarity of Bangladeshi migrants in Europe.

Rooted in lived experience, his work moves between the personal and the political, advocating for an ethics of storytelling that foregrounds vulnerability, multiplicity, and the right to narrate from the margins.