Roses has been selected for the main competition section of the 39th Moscow International Film Festival. The film wins the Kommersant Weekend Prize in the festival. Film Bazaar 2013 - Winner - Dubai Film Market Award Shanghai International Film Festival, June 2017 - Competition Moscow International Film Festival, June 2017 - Winner - Kommersant Jury Prize In competition, El Gouna Film Festival, September 2017 Official selection, Vancouver International Film Festival, September 2017 Official selection, Busan International Film festival, October 2017 Closing film, South Asian Film Festival, Paris, October 2017 In competition, Asia Pacific Screen Awards, November 2017 Official selection, 48th International Film Festival of India, Goa, 20–28 November 2017. Official Selection, IFFK Kerala 2017. Official Selection, Munich IFF 2018. Official Selection, SIFF 2018. Official Selection, Asian World Film Festival 2018, California. Reviews Thoroughly modern and unlike Farooki's previous work, this is a sobering, engrossing separation drama... It takes an actor of Irrfan Khan's stature and magnetism to turn an intimate separation drama into something special, and a writer-director like Bangladesh's happy maverick Mostofa Sarwar Farooki to layer on subtleties and shades of meaning with realistic detachment that never slips into melodrama... Its visual style and pacing make as much of an impression as the head-shaking story. — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter Directed with an assured and graceful touch that evokes the elegiac tone of a requiem, Mostofa Sarwar Farooki proves he's a singular voice in Bangladeshi cinema. With Irrfan Khan delivering another sublime lead performance (while being billed as co-producer), the film should bloom at festivals and secure a limited release in India, despite some censorship issues back home…..Other actors in the mixed cast of Bangladeshis and Indians are equally absorbing, especially Tisha. — Maggie Lee, Chief Asia Film Critic, Variety The latest work from Mostofa Sawar Farooki No Bed Of Roses (Doob) is an intimate family drama which eschews the usual melodramatic trappings of such fare to explore the quietly devastating impact of a husband's infidelity on those closest to him... Boasting an excellent central performance from acclaimed Indian actor Irrfan Khan... Khan is characteristically magnetic and surprisingly empathetic... While the story is salacious, Farooki's nuanced screenplay avoids cliche — sex scenes are notably absent — to instead focus on the very real pain of the situation... Alongside Khan, who will be familiar to Western audiences, the cast is universally strong... the evolving relationship between mother and daughter