Satyajit Ray remains a leading idol for Bengalis all over the world even more than 30 years after his death. Bangladeshi Proshoon Rahman pays tribute to the great filmmakers by coming up with a movie that moves somewhere between the feature, the documentary, and the film about the film. “Dear Satyajit” has already screened in a number of festivals around the world, including Vancouver, Florence and Kerala, winning the Jury Prize for Best Feature from Florence, and Best Actor, Best Cinematography & Best Editing Award in Feature Film Category from Jaipur.
“Dear Satyajit” review is part of the Submit Your Film Initiative
The movie starts with a documentarian, Aparajita Huq, wishing to shoot a hybrid documentary to commemorate Ray's birthday centenary celebration. She has already found a protagonist in Asif Mahmud, a man who resembles the Bengali filmmaker in a number of ways, with the first scenes dealing with her meeting the...
“Dear Satyajit” review is part of the Submit Your Film Initiative
The movie starts with a documentarian, Aparajita Huq, wishing to shoot a hybrid documentary to commemorate Ray's birthday centenary celebration. She has already found a protagonist in Asif Mahmud, a man who resembles the Bengali filmmaker in a number of ways, with the first scenes dealing with her meeting the...
- 8/1/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Proshoon Rahman’s tenth film and third feature, had its international premiere this August at Iffsa Toronto, while it was released in Bangladeshi theatres in October
“Dhaka Dream” review is part of the Submit Your Film Initiative
The film begins with the focus being on a bus going to Dhaka and its passengers, before a fast backward scene brings us to some time before, in a rundown city outside of the capital, where the ten main characters of the film face a number of issues that force them to leave. Nikhil, who is the closest thing to a main protagonist we have in the movie, is the owner of a barber shop he inherited from his father. One day, however, he finds it occupied by a local governor who also happens to run a crime syndicate in the area, and neither the police nor anyone else seems to be able...
“Dhaka Dream” review is part of the Submit Your Film Initiative
The film begins with the focus being on a bus going to Dhaka and its passengers, before a fast backward scene brings us to some time before, in a rundown city outside of the capital, where the ten main characters of the film face a number of issues that force them to leave. Nikhil, who is the closest thing to a main protagonist we have in the movie, is the owner of a barber shop he inherited from his father. One day, however, he finds it occupied by a local governor who also happens to run a crime syndicate in the area, and neither the police nor anyone else seems to be able...
- 12/8/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
2020 has been a particular good year for documentaries all over the world, as the international political situation along with the pandemic have presented much material for some films. Furthermore, the pandemic also prevented the shooting and essentially, circulation of feature movies to a large degree, giving much space to documentaries to shine much more than usual. Asian cinema responded to the challenge through a number of excellent productions, 15 of which we include here.
Without further ado, here are the best Asian documentaries of 2020, in reverse order. Some films may have premiered in 2019, but since they mostly circulated in 2020, we decided to include them.
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15. Long Period of Persecution
Proshoon Rahman directs a very thorough documentary that focuses exactly on what the title of the film says. His effort to highlight the history of the Rohingyas, both political...
Without further ado, here are the best Asian documentaries of 2020, in reverse order. Some films may have premiered in 2019, but since they mostly circulated in 2020, we decided to include them.
*By clicking on the title, you can read the full review of the film
15. Long Period of Persecution
Proshoon Rahman directs a very thorough documentary that focuses exactly on what the title of the film says. His effort to highlight the history of the Rohingyas, both political...
- 12/29/2020
- by AMP Group
- AsianMoviePulse
Rohingyas, an indigenous population of Myanmar have faced decades of discrimination and repression under successive Burmese military regimes. Effectively denied Citizenship Rights by the 1982 Citizenship Law, they are one of the largest stateless populations in the world. The persecutions became more intense and more violent during 2017, and in the August of the same year, more than 700,000 of the 1,1 million living in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, were forced to seek refuge in neighboring Bangladesh. At the moment, they are staying at an immense refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh.
The atrocities committed by Myanmar’s security forces, including mass killings, sexual violence, and widespread arson, according to Un investigators are now considered as genocide. However, the Rohingyas still want to return to Myanmar, but two attempts of repatriation have failed as the refugees said the guarantee of citizenship and safety was not ensured. At the same time, their...
The atrocities committed by Myanmar’s security forces, including mass killings, sexual violence, and widespread arson, according to Un investigators are now considered as genocide. However, the Rohingyas still want to return to Myanmar, but two attempts of repatriation have failed as the refugees said the guarantee of citizenship and safety was not ensured. At the same time, their...
- 1/16/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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