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Mehedi Mostafa
Fantasy in a concrete jungle
Documentaire | hdv | couleur | 14:55 | Bangladesh | 2022
An essay film on an unplanned city, Dhaka, from the point of view of an off-screen architect. The architect travels from the loud city to the silence of the remote village, encounters people, incidents and landscapes. The film is a meditation on the nostalgia for the rural past jutted against the urban chaos and a reflection on finding home in the urbanized present.
Born in Bangladesh, Mehedi Mostafa studied architecture in Dhaka before joining a Mumbai based film school Whistling Woods Int. in India. He finished his diploma in filmmaking with direction specialization in 2017. Currently he?s working on a feature documentary project called “Making Places” and developing a fiction feature. He attended Docedge Kolkata, Uniondocs summer documentary lab and Locarno south Asia industry academy. His latest short documentary FANTASY IN A CONCRETE JUNGLE (2022) was selected at Clermont-Ferrand international short film festival and won the Lab student prize.