Film Information
Year: 2025
Duration: 100
Language: VOSE
Genre: Documentary
Synopsis
In 2007, Bangladeshi documentary filmmaker Shaheen Dill-Riaz uncovered a family scandal. His sister had secretly married their cousin. This transgressive event began to tear the family apart, so Dill-Riaz decided to mediate between his sister in Australia, his younger brother Tutul in the USA and his heartbroken parents back home in Dhaka. Dill-Riaz turns the camera on himself and his dear ones, building a domestic saga shot over fourteen years. The film provides a contrast of lifestyles across cultures, with an inclusive narrative that shows the isolation of its protagonists from the world around them
Director
Shaheen Dill-Riaz (1969, Bangladesh) is a filmmaker, director, producer and writer based in Berlin. After finishing high school, he connected with other young filmmakers of the country and was involved in various short film productions. In 1992, through a scholarship, he studied History of Art at the Freie Universität Berlin and then cinematography at the Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf. Since 1999, Shaheen has worked as a writer, director, producer and cinematographer in Europe and Asia. His newest film Past is Present (2025) has been selected for International Film Festival Rotterdam (FFR) 2025.
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