Beginning Production

By the coastal belts of Bangladesh, in a small village named ‘Sutarkhali,’ RAKHI lives with her man SOUMEN (32) and their son RAHUL (6). Fighting against all the odds of the woods, along with around 100 families, they cultivated the land for generations until a tidal surge hit the coastal belts of Bangladesh. For RAKHI, SOUMEN, and RAHUL, life is not the same anymore. Seasons change the topography, even relations… Yet after the rain… They go out with spades and shovels to reclaim life again… Are You Listening!

The Rocket is a century-old paddle steamer with regular sailings from the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, transporting passengers to various destinations along the river. This double-decker vessel has clearly seen better days, but it’s still a popular means of transport for passengers from all walks of life.

Rupa, a rich girl, is unexpectedly pregnant, and in Bangladesh she needs to get married before she can have a baby. But her journalist boyfriend, who is pursuing a political case, has no time for her. Rupa's mother lives in the United States with her emigrated brother and cancer-stricken father, and they want Rupa to emigrate to the United States as soon as possible to join them. The latest film by Bangladeshi filmmaker Kamal Ahmed Simon, an architect by training, was awarded the World Cinema Fund grant at the Berlin Film Festival. The film has a unique artistic perspective, the hero and heroine are not completely justified, they have the perseverance of the "watchers", but also the confusion of the "bystanders", and finally pushed to the edge of the edge of no way back, the free explosion, but also touching.

Reality is a perception and it changes with perspective. Every individual who falls victim to a fatal accident is a character in their own right, but reduced to a mere number in the media! Inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s ‘Rashomon’, ‘Testimony of a Thread’ is a monologue collage in search of a face behind the numbers of the deadliest structural failure accident in modern human history.

"Until the lioness starts telling her own story, the hunter will always be the hero" - I recalled this old African proverb while listening to her cry on the flight. Following the conversation of the weeping mother over the phone, I started writing the script of Neel Mukut -Director