Aung Rakhine
Directing
Biography
Aung Rakhine is an aspiring indigenous filmmaker from Bangladesh. His first feature film, My Bicycle, is also the first feature film to be made in an indigenous language in Bangladesh. The film has been restricted by the country's censorship and not allowed to exhibit in the country.
Known For
Shimu, 23, works in a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Faced with difficult conditions at work, she decides to start a union with her co-workers. Despite threats from the management and disapproval of her husband, Shimu is determined to go on. Together the women must fight and find a way to register their union.
Made in Bangladesh
An Indigenous dreamer invents a new trade in his community for livelihood, but it is ended up even before his unfinished dream!
My Bicycle
A touching story of a simple man caught up in the terror of 1971 Bangladesh.
Meghmallar
The culling of dogs and people continues and remains unchallenged.
Birani
On the edge of Bangladesh, between mountains and water, stands a post-office, the only sign of civilization. It has a notorious reputation: its employees disappear. Two men, in love with each other, work there.
The Last Post Office
A one-take observational piece about the microcosm of Islamic practices and class segregation in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka. Multiplicity within a Muslim community and the passage of people through one single frame documents this society's interiors and exteriors.