Shimu fled her village as a child when her stepmother threatened to marry her off to a middle-aged man. Now 23 and living in the capital, she works grueling hours for paltry sums at a textile factory while her husband searches for work.
A film about loving the other. This film critiques certain pitfalls of nationalism that create conditions to justify war, killing and violence. 'Meherjaan' attempts to offer an aesthetic solution to war and violence.
A farewell to the generation who grew up making 35mm movies. We watch a mock attempt to produce the last celluloid film in Bangladesh investigating the emotion and nostalgia for the good old days of celluloid cinema that have faded into obsolescence.
Amid Wari-Bateshwar's ruins, Aladdin's spirit lingers between life and death. His mute wife, a shadow-chasing dwarf, his grieving father, and two treasure hunters seek him-each for their own reason-as the jungle guards its secrets.
Twenty continuous shots linger over the slums of Dhaka, contrasting a young man's search for moments of stillness and clarity with the megacity's constant onslaught of sound and movement.
On the edge of Bangladesh, between mountains and water, stands a post-office, the only sign of civilization. It has a notorious reputation: its employees disappear. Two men, in love with each other, work there.
A one-take observational piece about the microcosm of religious practice and class segregation in Bangladesh's capital city Dhaka. Multiplicity within a Muslim community and the passage of people through one single frame documents this society's interiors and exteriors..
The Poison Thorn revolves around the narratives of three rape survivors of Liberation War of Bangladesh and witnesses the expressions of a collective trauma of war and its effects on women.
