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About Director
Manoj Pramanik is an actor in the Bangladeshi film, television, and online streaming industries. Besides this, he is an assistant professor in Film and Media Studies at a public university in Bangladesh. He is producing films with his students for local and international ventures. After completing his Master of Arts in Theatre, he started working as an assistant director for a few prestigious directors in Bangladesh and India. As a director, FROM SURMA is his first film.
Synopsis
A COURIER hires a biker to help deliver a package to a rural villager, RIPON. Ripon’s neighbors are delighted to welcome the Courier since packages are rarely delivered to this remote village. Ripon is surprised anyone would send him a package. When he opens it, he is shocked to find the courier has delivered a box filled with garbage he recognizes as items he had discarded into the river Surma during his wedding celebration.
Director's Statement
Village people don’t take anything seriously in life. They treat life as if it is fun. It is normal for them to embrace birth and death and celebrate everything else in life. They don’t have many answers to every question that life presents. They mix truth and imagination in a fluid way with no questions raised. All this truth, imagination, and myth create in their lives a sense of mysticism that disconnects them from the world around them, enabling them to avoid taking responsibility for their actions.