Tanvir Mokammel (born 8 March 1955) is a Bangladeshi filmmaker and writer. He is the recipient of Ekushey Padak in 2017. Tanvir Mokammel has made seven full-length feature and fourteen documentaries. Some of his films have received national and international awards. His feature films are “The River Named Modhumoti” ,“Quiet Flows the River Chitra” ,“A Tree Without Roots”(LALSALU) ,“Lalon”, “The Sister”(RABEYA) and “The Drummer” (Jibondhuli) and “Rupsa Nodir Banke” (Quiet Flows the Rupsa River). Tanvir Mokammel’s prominent documentaries are; “The Garment Girls of Bangladesh”, “The Unknown Bard”, “Teardrops of Karnaphuli”, “Riders to the Sunderbans”, “A Tale of the Jamuna River”, “The Promised Land”, “Tajuddin Ahmad :An Unsung Hero”, “The Japanese Wife” and mega-documentary “1971”.

A prolific writer, Tanvir Mokammel has written Fifteen books and several articles on cinema. Besides, he has written novels, poems, short stories and on different cultural issues in journals and in newspapers. Tanvir Mokammel’s important books are “Film Aesthetics and Twelve Directors” (Chalachitra o Barojon Director), “Film” (Chalachitra), “Marxism and Literature” (Marxbad O Sahitya), “Syed Waliullah, Sisyphus and Quest for Tradition in Novel” (in Bengali), “Nitchutalar Manush”, translation of Maxim Gorky’s play The Lower Depths, into Bengali, “Charlie Chaplin: Triumph of the Tramp” (Bhabaghurer Digbijoy), in Bengali, “Grundtvig and Gonoshikhsa”, “Art of Cinema” (Cinemar Shilparup), in Bengali, “Tanvir Mokammel’s Articles”, “Dui Nogor”, “Tanvir Mokammel’s Poemes” and some other.

Tanvir Mokammel is at present the director of “Bangladesh Film Institute” (BFI).