Matir Moina

Matir Moina Bengali also spelled Matir Moyna and known in English as The Clay Bird is a Bengali film directed by Tareque Masud, a Bangladeshi film director. The film was released in 2002. It was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize in section Directors Fortnight outside competition at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, and became Bangladeshs first film to compete for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

According to the Masuds, the film was shot almost entirely with nonprofessionals in local settings often using local sounds. The cinematography attempted to capture the seasons in rustic appeal and the festivals and holidays of Bangladesh.The film is set against the backdrop of unrest in East Pakistan in the late 1960s leading up to the Bangladesh War of Liberation. In this setting, a small family must come to grips with its culture, its faith, and the brutal political changes entering its smalltown world. Anu, a young boy, is sent off to a madrasah by his unbendingly devout father Kazi. Anus younger sister falls ill and dies because of Kazis refusal to use conventional medicine. While at the madrasah, Anu befriends Rokon, an eccentric misfit in the rigorous religious school, who is forced by the teachers to undergo an exorcism by ducking in the freezing river to cure himself. ........

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