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- One's attachment to the homeland in the backdrop of the Indian partition of 1947. The story revolves around a Bengali Hindu family torn between pressures to migrate from East Bengal to India and their resolve to stay back.
- A story following the life of Ranu (Joya Ahsan) and her paranormal powers. She goes to psychiatrist Misir Ali (Chanchal Chowdhury) to find an answer to all her questions.
- The story revolves around a man named Azad. In the midst of his post-divorce depression, Azad contemplates suicide but is saved by Shyama. Their connection leads to a tumultuous marriage where Azad becomes a victim of a family curse.
- Based on a famous Bangladeshi ballad-opera, where portraits the backstory of a lady conqueror.
- A group of children from the "Children's Film Society" embark on a journey to the mangroves of Sundarbans in Bangladesh. The children are accompanied by renowned poets, writers, and filmmakers as well as volunteers Ratul and Trisha on the journey. Travelers can visit Sundarban only in high tides. However, things do not go as planned, and eventually, the group's ship gets stuck due to low tide. Things get even worse once the group spots local pirates approaching. Once the pirates board their ship, everyone is taken hostage. Fortunately, the ship's hidden passenger comes up with a plan, and he needs the children's help to execute it. Watch the thrilling and adrenaline-fueled family adventure "Adventure of Sundarbans" to find out if the children finally manage to escape.
- In the middle of the 1971;curfew is going on all over the Bangladesh. The liberation army is operated as effective guerrilla force - Badiul Alam is one them. Alam plans for starting guerrilla operation in the capital and hides himself in Mr. Matin's house. Mr. Matin lives with his loving wife Surma and two beautiful daughters Ratri and Opala. In association with other freedom fighters, Alam operates some successful guerrilla attacks against barbarous Pakistani military . But one after another his fellow freedom-fighters are getting caught by the military, tortured , murdered. Alam being shot and seriously injured is taken to Matin's house ; can he survive? Can he see the light of morning again ?
- The film tells the story of a visually challenged girl and her friends who support her to express & enhance her talents and their adventure
- When a sculptor visits a remote fishing village on the Bangladeshi Delta, he finds himself center stage in a primal, elemental conflict between land and sea, man and nature, past and future.
- A boy from the village was murdered and a dog saw that killer and told Rois about the murderer but Rois could not talk to anybody about the murderer because nobody would care about a madman and country's law will not accept his speech.
- The film revolves around a family's experiences during 1971, providing a poignant portrayal of the era.
- A poor family returns to their village from Dhaka after The Great Bengal Femine 1943. This movie centers on their struggling life during the World War II period.
- A tragic story of a mother who dedicates her only child for the sake of the freedom of the country during liberation war in 1971.
- Rabeya middle-class couple Matin Uddin and Shirin's daughter. Because the color is black, there is no good groom for it. On the other hand, in the middle-class family, lack of urgency. The younger brother Khoka is looking for a job. Come get a good marriage proposal for younger sister Rounu. Thus, the family has to move through different types of struggles and struggle.
- The Grave is a story of a grave digger who has been digging graves for a century.
- A colourful portrayal of the lives of the performers of a circus show.
- Footage of two tiger families living in the mangrove swamps of the Bay of Bengal.
- A Journey of 4 decade with love and passion. Things will arrive as certain threat while characters are moving through a real history. End turn to endless.
- A woman essays the role of a dancer in a play. Things turn interesting when she connects with the character on a personal level and falls in love with the man who essays another role in the play.
- A group of young boys and girls went to a forest in search of a valuable material. 3 friends got detached from the group and got captured by a trrorist group. Later police found the camp of the terrorists while searching for the teens.
- In the mid 16th century, classical East Bengal context - after being betrayed by her fiancé - the young female writer Chandrabati exiles herself inside a Shiva Temple and resorts to re-write the great Indian epic `Ramayana', rebelliously establishing ignored point of view of Sita- diminishing the iconic hero of the epic Rama.
- The romance between two young people is threatened when an island begins to appear in a river that separates two communities.
- Work of fiction, based on million true stories. Portraying womanhood of South Asia.
- The story-line revolves around Sabitri, a valiant female freedom fighter, focusing on the struggles of tea laborers during the tumultuous period of 1971. Sabitri's life was marked by uncertainties during the war, and as the newly independent country initiated trials for war criminals, she took on the role of a witness, tirelessly fighting to protect Sabitri and her war-born child Mongol from the clutches of adversity.
- During Bangladesh's liberation war against Pakistan in 1971, in a remote village Rabeya and Rokeya, two orphan young sisters lived in the religiously conservative household of their uncle Emdad Kazi, a rich kulak and a local Muslim League leader. During the war, for his political ambition, Emdad Kazi collaborated with the marauding Pakistan army. Khaled, the only brother of the two sisters, joined the Bengalee resistance guerrillas to fight against the Pakistan army. During a guerrilla operation Khaled was killed in a skirmish. The Pakistani captain ordered that the dead body of this young guerrilla should not be buried. It had to be kept on the embankment beside the river as a display to scare off the villagers so that nobody dared to oppose the army anymore. Nobody dared to bury Khaled's dead body. One night Rabeya, the sister, secretly proceeded to bury her brother. Rabeya was shot and killed. The villagers rose up. The Bengalee guerrillas won the final battle and declared Rabeya as a martyr.
- The story of freedom-loving people dreaming of an independent Bangladesh.
- The only boy of a widow, went for a train trip to Dhaka to receive prize & visit his aunt's house. On this trip, he lost his money & suspected two men. He left the train & followed them. On the way, some local boys & an inexperienced investigation books reader uncle of one joined him.
- Local postmaster Arif receives a letter one day where he is asked to inspire others from his village to get training and fight for the freedom of the country from Pakistani oppressors.
- Based on 1947's book 'Ekoi Namer Golpo' by Hasan azizul Haque.
- Politics and its influence brings struggle in the life of webers in a village.
- The story of a drummer and his family during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.
- The film is made by Farmers life. This has led to the struggle of the Farmers and the tortures and injustice of local high command and landlords on them. In 1946-1947, this movement was formed against the landlords and the British in protests against oppression and exploitation of long days.
- Joya returns home after receiving an ominous letter, leaving behind her dreams of completing her education.
- Panchagarh rail station of north Bangladesh is very solitary place. Only two passenger trains frequent the station, daily and there are the wagons that carry stones. Stones are stacked around the station -boulders, quarters, three-quarters, pea-gravels, etc. Wagons full of such stones travel to different parts of the country. The local member and his partner used to dominate the trade. As soon as they get a contract they stack wagons, especially with machine crushed stones. Different regions of Panchagarh -Bhajanpur, Shalbahan, and Jagdal - almost all cultivable lands bear stones, instead of rice. Small trolleys carry them to the railway station. Women and men workers sift and select them and put them in the crushing machines and on to the wagons-of them women workers are more numerous. Moimuna is one such worker. The story, primarily, revolves around her. She separates the boulders, sifts the stones, puts pea-gravels in a iron-made bowl and onto the wagons. She is a widow. She lives in a room of a dilapidated and abandoned house with her seven/eight year son, Ananta. Today, as usual, she walks along the railway line towards the station with her son and her lunch pack in a bundle. There is a holiday at the school where her son studies. Moimuna sends her son to the house of Kofil, an ailing worker of the railway station, with a can of food from her bundle. On the other hand, the partner is busy at the tea-stall. The client from Dhaka who wants to buy stones (pea-gravels) can also be seen in the stone-sifting area. The client is slightly upset because he feels that the pre-gravels that he had been supplied, earlier, and is being prepared for him now, were undersized. They slip through the deep tube well filter slots and make them dysfunctional. The partner persuades the client and takes him to the booking master at the station to transport his wares. Kafil's main work is to assist the sub-engineer in supervising the railway tracks. Kafil hails from Sylhet, a district on the other side of the country. He is afflicted by tuberculosis. He also has rheumatic fever. He has been posted to Panchagarh for the last four/five years and fond of Moimuna's son, takes him out for a ride on the motor trolley when he goes out for inspecting the tracks. He also feels some kind of liking for Moimuna. A few days later when Moimuna returns to work, her colleague, Ambia, says that the labour leader had made queries about her whereabouts. Moimuna knows why the supervisor inquires about her. Moimuna is a helpless woman who has caught the eyes of the labour leader. As helpless as she was, she was not the kind of woman who had sold her soul. She does not pay attention to Ambia and calmly concentrates on her work. Selects the stone, puts the sifted stones in a pot, puts it on her head and walks up the ladder that leads up to the wagon and drains the stones into it. The next day when Moimuna is back at work, the labour leader reprimands her : How dare you send food to Kofil's house, again? A patient of tuberculosis! Blood oozing when he coughs ... his house! Moimuna responds : He adores my son. He is a little unwell now so I sent some food. Why? What's wrong with that? Observing her self-assured response, the labour leader says : I didn't say it was wrong. Your jug, your water: it's your choice, who you want to feed. Somewhat flustered, the labour leader reminds her that he had not yet received a reply to the proposal he had made. Moimuna does not reply and quietly concentrates on her work. After her work is done Moimuna walks past the railway tracks to her house before night falls. She sees Kofil filling his pitcher from a tube well. Kofil will use it to water the plants in his garden. He invites her to her garden. Moimuna is surprised to see the young gourds and marigold plants of the garden. Watering the plants, Kofil says : I'm alright now. I can cook myself. No point in sending me food. He also says: Frankly, I don't like to open the door from the outside. If somebody opens it from the inside then only I would have found some happiness in my life. Afterwards, Kofil tears away some red spinach and a gourd and puts it into a basket and gives it to Moimuna. She takes it and walks back along the rail tracks. At home, Moimuna cuts the gourd in half. While sorting out the red spinach she finds a marigold flower. Surprised Moimuna looks up at the evening sky aimlessly. She feels a pang in her heart for Kofil. With half a gourd and some spinach she walks up the stairs of the dilapidated house with a kerosene lamp to light the way to where Ambia stays. Seeing the wares, Ambia immediately understands that it is from Kofil's garden. An emotion-charged Moimuna says: What's happened to me. I can't seem to forget the man's face. Ambia does not appreciate Moimuna's affection for the ailing man. She says: Think over it. You have lost one. Do you want to marry yet another sick man? Moimuna says, she is not thinking of marrying him. Finding an opportune moment, Ambia says: I'm saying that the labour leader may not be a good man but he has money. If he marries you, officially, what's wrong? Moimuna replies, instantly: What are you saying? Do you want me to be his third wife? Ambia then reminds Moimuna that if she did not oblige the lobour leader then she could be fired. And that she would not be able to find work anywhere else, either. His men are everywhere. Hearing Ambia's rant, Moimuna becomes silent. Ambia suggests that they go out to watch a traditional play Molua, which is being staged nearby today. Moimuna assents. The next day Ananta is found at the railway platform sketching on a paper with a pencil, given by Kofil. On the other hand, Moimuna is working at the stone stacks; lobour leader's assistant, Rahmat, sitting atop a stone stack watches the flow of work. Trucks full of stone come and as soon as they are unloaded rush off. Suddenly, Ananta sees the Goods Master with some people rushing towards Kofil's room. Ananta joins them. Standing in front of Kofil's room, Ananta sees Kofil sitting on an old wooden bench. The Station Master standing by his side. Because of rheumatic fever Kofil has high fever. His face sweating and his body shaking, frequently. He fell sick after inspecting the lines. The Goods Master suggests taking Kofil to a hospital but the Station Master rules it out, saying : What's the point. He will be alright soon. Ananta looks at Kofil with great shock. Kofil is so weak from the fever that at one point his head collapses, suddenly, on the bench. Ananta is panicky seeing the scene. At lunch Ananta tells his mother: Do you know, Kofil uncle fell again. The head suddenly crashed onto the bench. Eyes closed, the face completely covered with sweat. Moimuna is shocked, too. But she does not express it in front of her son. On the way back from work she lingers in front of Kofil's house. Ananta just behind her. Through the crevice of the door she sees Kofil lying on the cot, a home-made cotton blanket spread over his body. A colleague sitting by his side. Kofil coughing, repeatedly. At one point, some blood comes out with the cough. Seeing it, Moimuna bites at the end of her sari. Kofil glances at Moimuna, once. His eyes shut. Moimuna's face, gradually, fades from his gaze. Kofil goes into a delirium because of the soaring fever. He sees that he is slowly drifting into a mist on his rail push trolley, a red flag in his hand: The young grass and wild flowers creeping on the sides of railway slippers. Suddenly, he sees a person, just like him; standing on the side of the railway lines, he waves the red flag at him. The Kofil standing by the railway track waves back a green flag and bids him good-bye. The next day at work Moimuna watches the labour leader coming towards her. He says: I will knock on the door at night. If you open the bolt, then I will understand that you agree. In that case, your job becomes secure. If not, your job, here, ends tomorrow. Understand? Moimuna does not reply. Her leg thumb scratches the ground. Finding no dissent the labour leader concludes that her consent had been secured. At night Moimuna, Ambia and Ananta go to watch Molua-pala-a traditional play. It is winter and the audience have shawls and caps to protect them from the cold as they watch the play staged by Dilu Bayati of Kendua. In the audience is Ambia, Moimuna, the labour leader and Ananta. When Netai, the schemer's context comes in the pala, Ambia is vexed. When the Kazi's context comes, the labour leader grins. The similarities between the play Molua-pala and Rest Is Silence are striking. The juxtaposition is deliberate. The main character of Molua-pala is parallel to Rest Is Silence. The Kazi in Molua-pala is the gang leader, Netai, the schemer, is Ambia, and Binod is Kofil. In the pala when Binod dies, he is brought back to life by Molua. But in reality, when Kofil dies, Moimuna can't do anything. When Moimuna notices the segment where Molua verifies her chastity, Moimuna's mind experiences a change. She realizes if she agrees to the labour leader's proposal her unspoiled state would be gone. In the play, Molua drowns but in reality Moimuna sacrifices her virginity to save the ailing Kofil. This is the way, that Rest Is Silence becomes a revision of the traditional play Molua-pala. After watching the play Moimuna is fidgety. After dinner when Ananta goes to sleep in the adjacent room, she remains sleepless. The sound of cricket breaks the tranquility of the night. The only other sound is of a dog, barking a number of times. As soon as she gets ready to sleep she hears the sound of a knock on the door. Moimuna is startled. After two/three knocks, Moimuna unlocks the bolt of the aging but ornamented gate. The gang leader enters the room. Moimuna bolts the entrance with trembling hands. The dog, too, ceases to growl. As dawn breaks Moimuna plunges in the derelict millpond for a wash. She rinses her body with soap, again and again and immerses into the water, repeatedly. She feels that her body's grime is not being swabbed away, fully. She saunters over to the millpond's stairway. At one point, she returns home. Life goes on, despite the many assaults it endures. Moimuna's life moves on yet again, in the face of her shady night. She wraps the food into their pot-for her and Ananta. In another meal box she lays some food for Kofil. She puts the containers into the make-shift bag, locks the room from outside and starts walking towards the railway station. The haze had receded a long time back. Even then, being a bare terrain there is trace of dew drops on the railway tracks. Moimuna is walking briskly, well ahead of Ananta, on the plane of the railway track. The Panchagarh railway station is a little further up. Moimuna is walking a little more hastily than usual. Ananta is picking the shingles that lie between the slippers and tossing them afar. That's a sport he loves. As Moimuna approaches Kofil's house, she watches from a distance, a body draped in white shroud being shifted in a casket. The Station Master is also there. Kofil was intimate with him. Both were lonely men -one complemented the other. The allusion is not lost on Moimuna. Impulsively, her hand picks up the end of her sari and she bites it, hard. Ananta walks up to his mother and says : Will you give the canteen, mother? The mother in an undertone says : no. She then grapples up the hand of her son and walks towards the station. When she arrives at her work place Ambia walks up and consoles her. Ambia came to work a lot earlier, so she knows about Kofil's death long ago. She breaks the news to Moimuna. She reins her cry and gets down to work. At one point, Moimuna's work ends. She returns home. On her way back, she hears the sound of a tube well being pressed. Stunned, she spins around: she sees the garden from afar. She feels a twinge in her heart for Kofil. She breaks into a silent sob. She starts walking again. It is the same path she takes, everyday, to work and back. She looks at the sky: the sun is going down. She feels helpless. She feels she has lost something. Even after such sufferings and rout, life has to move on. A sore tale of her life ends, where she mutely added to the welfare of one more.
- Dukhu's life in a railway station of Dhaka is a continuity of struggle, both physical and emotional. Having lost his father at an early age, he leaves behind his caring mother to get away from his abusive step-father. Disguised as an orphan, he starts working for a wealthy family of a village. There, he encounters a sage from whom he seeks adoration and nirvana. To live a free life one must release the bondage of love. Inspired by the sage's words, Dukhu steps toward the unknown; unfastening his love and adoration towards his mother.
- One day in life during the Liberation War of Bangladesh, 1971.