Rahat Rahman

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Rahat Rahman

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Saturday Afternoon
1h 23m
Movie 2019

Saturday Afternoon

An unprecedented terrorist attack takes place in a peaceful café in the center of Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, on a nice Saturday afternoon. The terrorists use religion to divide and to kill people, while the surviving hostages, all of them also Muslims, try to defend their own humanistic values. The film unravels the clashes and contradictions of religion, ideology, and civilizations through a terror drama shot in a single take.

Biography

Rahat Rahman is a filmmaker from Bangladesh, currently living in Canada. in 2016 he was selected as a director fellow in the prestigious Asian Film Academy 2016 held in Busan, South Korea and as part of the program, in a group collaboration with three other directors made the short film "hello uncle!" in 2018, he wrote and directed the segment "Jibon's Gun" in the First Bangladeshi Anthology Film "Sincerely Yours, Dhaka" which had its world premiere at Busan International Film Festival in the same year and has since been screened and awarded at various film festivals all over the world. The film was chosen as Bangladesh's official submission for the best foreign language film award at The Oscars 2021. He is currently pursuing a Film Production diploma at Confederation College in Thunder Bay, Canada.

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