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No Ground Beneath the Feet

Payer Tolay Mati Nai

Director: Mohammad Rabby Mridha

2021｜Bangladesh｜90min｜Language: Bengali｜Subtitles: English, Japanese

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Starring

Mostafa Monwar
Priyam Archi
Deepanwita Martin

Synopsis

Saiful, an impoverished ambulance driver, has come to the capital city of Dhaka to earn his livelihood. In his hometown on a sandbank in the Jomna River basin, his family has suffered devastating flood damage but his job does not allow him to return home. Meanwhile, in the midst of his grueling life in Dhaka, he succumbs to temptation and is consequently trapped into a problematic marriage with another wife, who is also struggling to survive in the city. Scrambling between two wives, depressing work, and a series of unfortunate events, Saiful struggles to get any solid ground beneath his feet, literally and metaphorically.

"No Ground Beneath the Feet" is the debut film of Mohammad RABBY Mridha, a promising new Bangladeshi filmmaker. The men who migrate to the city to work alone are ensnared by a variety of traps, with those who trap them also living on the edge in the chaotic city. The film sharply describes the dark realities of Bangladesh. The film's realistic representations, along with Saiful's emotional struggles, will not allow the audience to take their eyes off the story. In 2021, the world film industry paid attention to Bangladesh cinema, and this film is one of its representative masterpieces. Selected for the 26th (2021) Busan International Film Festival.

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