Rahat Rahman
Directing
Biography
Rahat Rahman is a filmmaker from Bangladesh, currently living in Canada. in 2016 he was selected as a director fellow in the prestigious Asian Film Academy 2016 held in Busan, South Korea and as part of the program, in a group collaboration with three other directors made the short film "hello uncle!" in 2018, he wrote and directed the segment "Jibon's Gun" in the First Bangladeshi Anthology Film "Sincerely Yours, Dhaka" which had its world premiere at Busan International Film Festival in the same year and has since been screened and awarded at various film festivals all over the world. The film was chosen as Bangladesh's official submission for the best foreign language film award at The Oscars 2021. He is currently pursuing a Film Production diploma at Confederation College in Thunder Bay, Canada.
Known For
A parody commentary series on Bangladeshi movies
Cinemaal
In this omnibus, 11 Bangladeshi filmmakers create a love letter to the city of Dhaka. From young girls looking for a drink in a dry town to a bank scammer's attempted murder to a plumber creating a refugee crisis, the city co-stars every time.
Sincerely Yours, Dhaka
A boy is in love with a girl from a social site. He goes on a journey to meet her along his friends.
@18: All Time Dourer Upor
The story of an event management companies.
Team Possible
An unprecedented terrorist attack takes place in a peaceful café in the center of Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, on a nice Saturday afternoon. The terrorists use religion to divide and to kill people, while the surviving hostages, all of them also Muslims, try to defend their own humanistic values. The film unravels the clashes and contradictions of religion, ideology, and civilizations through a terror drama shot in a single take.
Saturday Afternoon
A private university student Rafi, and his haphazard family. The father is involved with another woman; the mother is irritated at the daughter in law, the brother is a corrupt employee, the sister in law dreams of a nuclear family and amidst all the chaos the story of Rafi's life goes on with his imaginary friend. A turn of event makes the family come together and realise that family comes first.
Monkey Bizness
Strict Shift - a Short Film by Rahat Rahman
Strict Shift
A lustful day turns into a nightmare
Paangkha
An average man gets a glimpse of solipsism when he discovers the dissonance between his and other people's perception of him after taking pictures at a photo studio.