SWOPNODANAY (ON THE WINGS OF DREAMS)

Bangladesh/2007/Bengali dialogue with English subtitles/Colour/35mm/88 mins

Fazlu (Mahmuduzzaman Babu), now in his mid-thrities, lives in a small Bangladesh village. He is commonly known as “Kabiraj” (a herbal medicine man). In reality, he is a peddler of spurious ointments, which he sells at weekly market fairs, accompanied by Rattan, his 10-year-old son.

One day he buys a second-hand pair of imported jeans for Rattan. On washing them, his wife (Momena Choudhury) discovers a wad of foreign currency notes in a pocket. They guard this booty, hiding it away, thinking it to be a tidy sum. With no way of knowing what currency they are dealing with or how to exchange it, they are forced to seek help from trusted sources, whom they discover are only too eager to profit.

Greed soon takes over, and close relationships, including those between husband and wife, begin to crumble.

“Director Golam Rabbany Biplob’s debut work (winner of the Best Director award in the Asian New Talent Competition of the Shanghai International Film Festival) brings alive the colours and way of life in Bangladesh’s countryside and looks with wry understanding at his gullible characters and the forces from outside that are influencing them.” – Uma da Cunha

Director(s) :

Golam Rabbany Biplob

GOLAM RABBANY BIPLOB was born in 1974 in Bangladesh. His love for cinema has earned him an international reputation as a leading cine-club activist and film festival organizer. He is the Founder-Director of the International Film Festival of Bangladesh, and the Secretary-General of the International Federation of Film Societies, the global umbrella of cine-clubs. On the Wings of Dreams is his first film.
Crew : Faridur Reza Sagar(Producer), Mahfooz Ur Rahman Khan(Cinematographer), Junaid Halim(Editor), Bappa Mozumder(Composer), Mahmuduzzaman Babu(Main Cast), Rokeya Prachy(Main Cast), Fazlur Rahman Babu(Main Cast), Momena Choudhury(Main Cast), Shamima Islam Tusti(Main Cast)
Format : Colour/35mm/
Running Time : 88 mins
Country : Bangladesh
Programme : Cinema of Asia
Venue : Mall of the Emirates - CineStar 9, Mall of the Emirates - CineStar 9, Mall of the Emirates - CineStar 1, Mall of the Emirates - CineStar 1
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