Catherine Masud

The grim news made international headlines: On August 21, 1971, prison authorities discovered a gun on famed Soledad Brother author, activist and San Quentin inmate George Jackson. A shootout ensued, killing Jackson, two other inmates and three guards, and wounding three more officers. Authorities asserted that only lawyer Stephen Bingham could have smuggled the weapon into the prison. Fearing that a conviction for abetting the guards’ deaths would lead to his own murder, the attorney fled, beginning a long, strange odyssey of pseudonymous exile. Strange indeed for the Yale-graduate scion of politically prominent New England elites.

A documentary film based on a journey of late filmmaker Tareque Masud

After the documentary movie Muktir Gaan (1995), few teenagers visiting in some independence war 71' devastated villages in search of some real scary stories of the days of the war.

A young man who lives nearby an airport finds himself in trouble upon meeting a mysterious stranger.

Set against the backdrop of the Pakistan Army crackdown during Bangladesh’s 1971 war, this political thriller follows a student activist who takes refuge from the Pakistan army in a local barbershop.

A mother and her son return to their home in Sylhet, Bangladesh after 15 years abroad and try to retrace their roots. Beginning with the death of the father of the family, the film proceeds with the central characters seeking a link to their lives.

A mother and her son return to their home in Sylhet, Bangladesh after 15 years abroad and try to retrace their roots. Beginning with the death of the father of the family, the film proceeds with the central characters seeking a link to their lives.

1960년대 말 파키스탄으로부터 독립을 하기 직전 방글라데시의 혼란스러운 시대상을 어린 아이의 눈과 그를 둘러싼 가족의 모습을 통해 풀어내는 영화. 어린 아누는 아버지의 뜻에 따라 이슬람 학교에 진학하지만, 엄격한 규율에 힘들기만 하다. 그러던 어느 날, 유일한 친구 로콘과 동생에게 비극이 찾아오고 아누의 주변은 정치적 종교적 갈등의 시대적 소용돌이에 빠지게 된다.

1960년대 말 파키스탄으로부터 독립을 하기 직전 방글라데시의 혼란스러운 시대상을 어린 아이의 눈과 그를 둘러싼 가족의 모습을 통해 풀어내는 영화. 어린 아누는 아버지의 뜻에 따라 이슬람 학교에 진학하지만, 엄격한 규율에 힘들기만 하다. 그러던 어느 날, 유일한 친구 로콘과 동생에게 비극이 찾아오고 아누의 주변은 정치적 종교적 갈등의 시대적 소용돌이에 빠지게 된다.

This is a film which challenges our notions of child labor. It peeks into a world where the concept of childhood as we know it has no meaning, where children support their parents, and where work is just another part of growing up. This is Dhaka, Bangladesh. Following several children over a period of six years, A KIND OF CHILDHOOD is an attempt to focus on the realities of child labor, with real children, their struggles and dreams.

This is a film which challenges our notions of child labor. It peeks into a world where the concept of childhood as we know it has no meaning, where children support their parents, and where work is just another part of growing up. This is Dhaka, Bangladesh. Following several children over a period of six years, A KIND OF CHILDHOOD is an attempt to focus on the realities of child labor, with real children, their struggles and dreams.

This historic film, completed in 1995 by filmmaking duo Tareque Masud and Catherine Masud tells the true story of a troupe of singers traveling through the refugee camps and zones of war during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. The film blends documentary and fictional genres in a musical structure to tell the story of the birth of a nation and the ideals of secularism and tolerance on which it was founded. The filmmakers combined footage of the cultural troupe and their activities, shot by American filmmaker Lear Levin in 1971, with historic footage collected from archives around the world, to create “Muktir Gaan” (Song of Freedom).