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Bangladeshi film ‘No Ground Beneath the Feet’ selected for the international competition section of IFFI, Goa

Dhaka, Nov 12 (UNI) Bangladeshi film ‘Paayer Tolay Mati Nai’ (No Ground Beneath the Feet) directed by Mohammad Rabby Mridha has been included in the international competition section of the 52nd International Film Festival of India (IFFI) to be held at Goa between 20-28 November.
‘Paayer Tolay Mati Nai’ is Bangladeshi director Mohammad Rabby Mridha’s feature debut. It stars Mostafa Monwar, Priyam Archi and Dipanita Martin.
The film narrates the story of Saiful who is an ambulance driver in Dhaka. He 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. His second wife working abroad blames him for not buying her a return ticket. 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.
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