Rehana Maryam Noor - A Standing Ovation from the Audience at the 74th Cannes Film Festival

 


Rehana Maryam Noor is the first-ever film from Bangladesh in the Cannes official selection.  The film is about a single mother who is an assistant professor at a local medical college, finds herself in a difficult position after witnessing a sexual assault where she knows both the victim and the perpetrator.

It is a powerful character of Rehana who single-handedly wages a fight for justice on behalf of her six-year-old daughter and one of her students. The role is played by Azmeri Haque Badhon The film is directed by Abdullah Mohammad Saad who made his debut in, "Live from Dhaka" (2016), received Silver Screen Awards for Best Director.  This film has every chance to win an award.






With a similar type of plot of how a woman fights against society for justice, we have seen in the 1993 film Damini. That film became a cult feminist film and is still regarded as an all-time classic female-oriented film and important for portraying women empowerment in cinema. 




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