Four Bangladeshi shorts at Cannes

Cannes festival, the foremost prestigious event of world cinema, can feature four Bangladeshi short films at this year's edition, to be control might 8-19 at the French Riviera city the pageant is called once. The Court Métrage, or short film catalogue of this year's pageant, has listed these films on its electronic computer.

Two of the shorts square measure documentaries, whereas 2 square measure works of fiction, whereas 3 of the works surround the Rohingya crisis. As per the festival's short film catalogue, the documentaries square measure “A combine of Sandal” by Josim Ahmed and “A 440 yards Country” by Noman Robin, whereas the options square measure “Rowai” by Iqbal Hossain Chowdhury and “Meghe Dhaka” by Monzurul Alom. Of them, this is often the second consecutive Court Métrage outing for Josim and Iqbal, whose films “Daag” and “Dhaka a pair of.00” severally were additionally invited to last year's pageant.

“A combine of Sandal” could be a five-minute dialogue-less documentary shot on associate degree iPhone, sweeping over the Rohingya exodus to the Bangladeshi borders from Burma since August 2017. it absolutely was screened at the Napoli Human Rights festival last year.

Noman Robin's “A 440 yards Country” is that the longest of the four selected titles, at thirty five minutes long. It follows a young Myanmarese boy United Nations agency fled his country and came to Bangladesh, zooming in on the Rohingya exile flow and the way life goes on there.

“Rowai” is that the solely co-production on the list, between Bangladesh and UK. At fourteen minutes long, it's categorised as a drama, with the summary reading “A Rohingya stranded in post-Brexit London” and no different detail obtainable.

“Meghe Dhaka” (English title “Life while not Sun”) sheds lightweight on global climate change, and also the climate migration many thousands of Bangladeshis square measure being forced to. It revolves around a young boy named Habu United Nations agency could be a loom employee, and has got to come back to the capital once a storm wreaks mayhem in his native village.

With over one,600 short films being a part of this year's Court Métrage catalogue, it's exhausting for one film to square out, however it undoubtedly could be a matter of pride that Bangladeshi filmmakers square measure slowly however steady creating their approach into major film festivals. there's a brief film competition at metropolis tho', at the tip of that could be a Palme d'Or du Court Métrage trophy, however that list is way shorter (last year's official competition choice was of eleven films) and can be declared next month.

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