Gifted film director whose 2002 feature The Clay Bird won an award at Cannes
At the Cannes film festival in 2002, Matir Moina (The Clay Bird) from Bangladesh came as a revelation. Shown in the Directors' Fortnight competition, the film gained the International Critics' award (Fipresci) for its "authentic, moving and delicate portrayal of a country struggling for its democratic rights", thus becoming the first Bangladeshi film to win a prize at Cannes. The Clay Bird was the first film selected by Bangladesh to compete for an Oscar for best foreign-language film and to be given wide international distribution. It was also the first fiction feature directed by Tareque Masud, who has been killed in a car crash at the age of 54.
The Clay Bird, which deals with the impact of religious belief on a family's lives during the struggle for Bangladesh's independence from Pakistan in the 1960s, focuses on a young...
At the Cannes film festival in 2002, Matir Moina (The Clay Bird) from Bangladesh came as a revelation. Shown in the Directors' Fortnight competition, the film gained the International Critics' award (Fipresci) for its "authentic, moving and delicate portrayal of a country struggling for its democratic rights", thus becoming the first Bangladeshi film to win a prize at Cannes. The Clay Bird was the first film selected by Bangladesh to compete for an Oscar for best foreign-language film and to be given wide international distribution. It was also the first fiction feature directed by Tareque Masud, who has been killed in a car crash at the age of 54.
The Clay Bird, which deals with the impact of religious belief on a family's lives during the struggle for Bangladesh's independence from Pakistan in the 1960s, focuses on a young...
- 8/16/2011
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
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