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 a n 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. T his 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 fo...