July 31, 2007

Bangladeshi Film: All about Matir Moina

For many years, Tareque and Catherine Masud had dreamed of making a feature film based on Tareque’s childhood experience in a madrasa (Islamic seminary) during the late 1960’s in the then East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).

MATIR MOINA (The Clay Bird)

98 minutes, 35mm color, 2002

Directed by Tareque Masud

Produced by Catherine Masud

Screenplay: Tareque & Catherine Masud

An Audiovision/MK2 production

Achievements of Matir Moina

2002 Cannes Film Festival, FIPRESCI International Critics' Prize for Best Film

2002 Edinburgh International Film Festival

2002 Montreal International Film Festival

2002 Marrakech Film Festival (Morocco), Best Screen Play Award

2002 Cairo International Film Festival

2003 Palm Springs International Film Festival

2003 New Directors/New Films Festival

2003 Karafilm Festival, Best Film

Publish Post

DVD RELEASED in Bangladesh

UK Television Broadcast

NORTH AMERICAN RELEASE

Interview of Tareque Masud

Excerpts from interview taken in Paris in January, 2002