Bangladeshi film film titled ‘Payer Tolay Mati Nai’ (No Ground Beneath the Feet) directed by Mohammad Rabbi Mridha and produced by Abu Shahed Emon has recently received the Gautam Buddha Award as the best full-length film at the Nepal International Film Festival (NIFF).
Earlier, this film was selected for the 26th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) held in October last year. It has been screened at various film festivals around the world. It previously received the special critics award at the Jaffna Film Festival in Sri Lanka.
However, this is the first time they have bagged the best film award under the main category at any festival. This film is Mohammad Rabbi Mridha’s feature debut which stars National Award-winning actress Deepanwita Martin, Mostafa Monwar and Priyam Archie. It narrates the life story of an ordinary man who walks through conflicts in his life involving work, family and morality and tells the story of an ambulance driver Saiful from Dhaka who experiences death on a daily basis. But, poverty is his biggest challenge as his family faces shrinking resources with river erosion destroying their land in the village.
The film depicts the struggle of a person driven to the brink due to the stress caused by poverty further aggravated by natural disasters caused by climate change.
