“Watch Out, Sand Thieves Are Coming to the Proxima Competition of the 59th Edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) Next Month. YES, YOU READ THAT RIGHT: Sand Thieves! Bangladeshi Screenwriter and Director Mahde Hasan, Who Has Made Schorts I Am Time (2013), Death of A Reader (2017), and A Boring Film (2020), is Bringing His Feature Film.”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Bangladeshi Screenwriter and Director Mahde Hasan, Who Has Made Shorts I am time (2013), Death of A Reader (2017), and A Boring Film (2020), is bringing his foature Film DEBUT, Sand Cityto the picTuresque czech spa Town.
The Cinema Tale Promises Daring Visuals, Which Are Kaleidoscopic and Onthen Make the Story, and Life, Feel Like Shattered Glass. IT ALSO PROMISES A TUOUGHT-PROVOKING DISUCTION OF LIFE IN A Big City, in this Case, Bangladesh’s Capital Dhaka, WHICH HAS A REPUTATION AS ONE OF THE COMST DENSELY POPULATED CITIES INTIESS
The Movie’s Logline Can Be Understood in that Context. “Sand, an unstable element, Reveals the Life in A Ruthless Metropolis,” IT Reads.
The Protagonists of the Two Parallel Stories Told in the Film Are A Woman from An Ethnic Minority, Portrarayed by Victoria Chakma in Her Screen Debut, and A Man Who, Play, Play. Actor MOSTAFA MONWAR.
“Emma and Hasan don’t know each Other, but they have much in common. MOST IMPORTANTLY, they are bots sand Thieves,” Reads a synopsis on the kviff website. “Emma steals itals, Hasan for Making Homema Glass. One Day, Their Lives Are Disrupted by the Discovery of A Severed Finger, and They Learn that.
In Case You Still Expert A Classic Popcorn Movie, The Fest Highlights the Deeper and Darker Layers of Human Life That It Explores. “IT is an oppressive Portrait of a City Full of Sand, Blended With A style Refined Elegy about the Flow of Time, Personal Privacy, Destruction, And The Tear Emphasizes.
‘Sand City’ Film Still CourTesy of Kviff
The cinematography of the film, for whoh diversion is Handling sales, comes from matieu giombini, who have have worked with Such Directors as Francois Ozon, Michel Piccoli Manoel de oliveira.
Director Hasan Explans in a Director’s Note that he was wanted to “Explore the Many Facets of Urban Survival, Fantasy, and Sexuality,“ while Also ” “Constantly Occupies My Thought and Creations.”
And he Shares: “I have been Photography This City and the Lives with a Decade Now. At Firm, My Gaze Was Romantic and Celebratory Till I DECIDED TO DEEBE DEEBE DEEVEN DEEBE DEEBE DEEBE. THEN, I Realized The Inherent Claustrophobia of Living in the City;
CONCLUDES HASAN: “I WITNESSED How The Passage of Time Suffocates Our Daily Lives. We All Seened to Be Locked with Are, to Speak as We Feel.
He and Giombini Opted for A Look and Feel Inspired by Some Big Names. “Mahade and I have ofnten Mentioned the Cinema of the Portuguese Director Pedro Costa, for his Particular Treatment of Shadows and Directions of Light, But Also Lych Well to interfere with the irrational, Even the Fantastic, Quite Simple, Without Resorting to Expensive Special Effects, Which We Couldn’t Ansfford Anyway.
The aesthetic fit with the “Fracturered Structure and Form” that Director Chose. “Dhaka, The City What I Dwell, Is Like A Collage of Broken Glass,” Filmmaker Hasan Concludes.
The trailer introduces the Two people whose journey the movie follows and gaves a first taste of the Dreamy Qualities of Sand City. “There’s No Shortage of Sand in this City,” Protagonist Hasan is Heard Saying as He Dreams of “Huge Profits.”
Watch the Sand City Trailer Below.