Be careful, sand thieves are coming to the Proxima Competitors of the 59th version of the Karlovy Range Worldwide Movie Pageant (KVIFF) subsequent month. Sure, you learn that proper: sand thieves!
Bangladeshi screenwriter and director Mahde Hasan, who has made shorts I Am Time (2013), Loss of life of a Reader (2017), and A Boring Movie (2020), is bringing his function movie debut, Sand Metropolis, to the picturesque Czech spa city.
The cinematic story guarantees daring visuals, that are kaleidoscopic and infrequently make the story, and life, really feel like shattered glass. It additionally guarantees a thought-provoking dissection of life in an enormous metropolis, on this case, Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka, which has a repute as one of the densely populated cities on this planet.
The film’s logline may be understood in that context. “Sand, an unstable component, reveals the life in a ruthless metropolis,” it reads.
The protagonists of the 2 parallel tales advised within the movie are a girl from an ethnic minority, portrayed by Victoria Chakma in her display debut, and a person who’s a member of the bulk inhabitants, performed by Bangladeshi actor Mostafa Monwar.
“Emma and Hasan don’t know one another, however they’ve a lot in frequent. Most significantly, they’re each sand thieves,” reads a synopsis on the KVIFF web site. “Emma steals it for kitty litter, Hasan for making home made glass. In the future, their lives are disrupted by the invention of a severed finger, and so they study that the human psyche can shatter as simply as glass.”
In case you continue to count on a traditional popcorn film, the fest highlights the deeper and darker layers of human life that it explores. “It’s an oppressive portrait of a metropolis filled with sand, blended with a stylistically refined elegy in regards to the stream of time, private privateness, destruction, and the tear-filled valleys of our interior worlds,” it emphasizes.
‘Sand Metropolis’ movie nonetheless
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The cinematography of the movie, for which Diversion is dealing with gross sales, comes from Mathieu Giombini, who has labored with such administrators as Francois Ozon, Michel Piccoli, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, and Manoel de Oliveira.
Director Hasan explains in a director’s word that he wished to “discover the various aspects of city survival, fantasy, and sexuality,” whereas additionally “exploring my very own feelings” in regards to the metropolis and the way it “continuously occupies my ideas and creations.”
And he shares: “I’ve been photographing this metropolis and the lives inside it for nearly a decade now. At first, my gaze was romantic and celebratory until I made a decision to probe even deeper and look past the apparent. Then, I spotted the inherent claustrophobia of residing within the metropolis; the lives of individuals as in the event that they have been all locked inside their very own abyss.”
Concludes Hasan: “I witnessed how the passage of time suffocates our day by day lives. All of us gave the impression to be locked inside a lure the place there’s a want to cover ourselves and by no means had the braveness to come back out as we’re, to talk as we really feel. There’s nearly a disaster of religion, whereby the individuals have stopped trusting and believing in higher days.”
He and Giombini opted for a feel and appear impressed by some large names. “Mahde and I’ve usually talked about the cinema of the Portuguese director Pedro Costa, for his explicit therapy of shadows and instructions of sunshine, but in addition of the American director David Lynch, who manages so effectively to intervene with the irrational, even the improbable, fairly merely, with out resorting to costly particular results, which we couldn’t afford anyway,” Giombini explains.
The aesthetics match with the “fractured construction and kind” that the director selected. “Dhaka, town the place I dwell, is sort of a collage of damaged glass,” filmmaker Hasan concludes.
The trailer introduces the 2 individuals whose journey the film follows and provides a primary style of the dreamy qualities of Sand Metropolis. “There’s no scarcity of sand on this metropolis,” protagonist Hasan is heard saying as he desires of “enormous income.”
Watch the Sand Metropolis trailer under.