Sand City
Balur Nogorite
Indonesian Premiere
99 minutes | 2025 | Bangladesh | Drama | 🔊 Bangla, Chakma
Synopsis
Sinopsis
Two parallel stories about two individuals. An indigenous woman and a man from the majority population. They are not directly related. The only thing they have in common is SAND.
Emma, the film’s female protagonist, collects sand for her cat litter. She sets out on her scooter every week and picks up her litter’s fill of sand. One day, she discovers a finger in
the sand—a severed finger with a crimson, polished nail. Rather than panicking, she gradually develops an unusual attachment to the lone finger.
Hasan, on the other hand, works in a glass manufacturing plant. He steals silica sand and other valuable materials from the plant to make glass at home and dreams of building his
own massive glass factory. What begins as a solitary activity soon leads to a fantasy that gradually destroys him.
Schedule
Jadwal
Wed, 3 Dec 2025 | 22:00 | EMPIRE XXI | Premiere
Director's Biography
Biografi Sutradara
Mahde Hasan
Mahde Hasan is a reflective and visually keen filmmaker from Bangladesh. In 2017, his short film I Am Time was presented at the 69th Locarno Festival. The following year, in 2018, his film Death of a Reader was screened at the 71st Locarno Festival. That same year, he participated in the Locarno Film Festival’s Open Doors Hub and received the CNC development grant for his debut feature, Sand City. With Where is the Friend’s Home, he won first place in the ‘movieofmylife’ digital competition at the 70th Locarno Festival. Sand City was selected for NANTES PRODUIRE AU SUD 2018 and later chosen for La Fabrique Cinéma de l’Institut français 2019 at Cannes. In 2021, Sand City received a production grant from the Swiss fund Visions Sud Est. His short film, A Boring Film, was selected for the Pardi di Domani section at Locarno Film Festival 2020.
His background also includes participation in two film residencies: a two-month residency in Switzerland in 2018, followed by a five-week residency in Los Angeles in 2023, both initiated by Film Independent.
Sand City is his first feature film. It premiered in the Proxima Competition at the 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where it won the Proxima Grand Prix.
Credit
Kredit
| Production Company | Khona Talkies, Cinema Cocoon |
| Producer | Rubaiyat Hossain, Aadnan Imtiaz Ahmed |
| Director | Mahde Hasan |
| Scriptwriter | Mahde Hasan |
| Cinematographer | Mathieu Giombini |
| Production Designer | Rainirr Borshon |
| Editor | Mahde Hasan |
| Main Cast | Victoria Chakma, Mostafa Monwar |
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| Contact | [email protected] |
