Rehana (2021)

In this harsh moral thriller selected as a spotlight unit in Cannes, a troubled medical scholar opposes institutional sexism. Bangladeshi widow Rehana Maryam Noor, a busy assistant professor, rules her medical students and her young daughter with the same caution. When she learned that her boss had sexually harassed one of their trainees, she joined a campaign to force the agency to respond. But which will break first: the iron wall to shield abusers or Rehana's own strict moral code? Writer/director Abdullah Mohammad Saad tells the driving and disturbing story of individuals fighting systemic wrongdoing in his second film-the first Bangladeshi film selected for the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival. With the exploratory, claustrophobic photography techniques of DOP Tuhin Tamjul and the strong magnetic performance of Azmeri Haque Badhon, Rehana Maryam Noor is deeply concerned about the injustice of normalization...