Rehana

'Rehana' is a Bengali film written and directed by Abdullah Mahammad Saad that opens in theaters on June 28, 2024. Nominated for the Un Certain Regard Award at the Cannes Film Festival (2021) and winner of the Luna de Valencia Award and the Best Actress at the Valencia Young Festival.

The plot denounces a case of sexual abuse and the silence that surrounds it, through the struggle of an associate professor at a university hospital in Dakha (Bangladesh) to uncover it. Rehana was facing the daily difficulties of being a widowed mother, seeking to find a balance between family and work, when she came across a sexual assault on one of her students. On one of his work days he observes the young woman leaving a professor's office in tears and from then on he will try everything possible to have this abuse recognized in the faculty, at the same time that he receives a complaint from the school for the unusual behavior of his six-year-old daughter. The protagonist does not want to accept the social norms of the patriarchy in which she is trapped and she will put everything at stake so that justice is done for her student and her daughter.

Azmeri Haque Badhon plays Rehana and the cast is completed by Afia Jahin Jaima, Kazi Sami Hassan and Afia Tabassum Borno, among others, in a co-production between Bangladesh, Singapore and Qatar, with Metro Video and Potocol as producers.

• Drama