Talent Guide

Arifur Rahman

  • Discipline:Producer
  • Program Year:Fast Track 2021, Grants and Awards 2021, Producing Lab 2021

Bio

Arifur Rahman is an independent filmmaker from Bangladesh. He completed the graduation program from Busan Asian Film School in Film Producing in 2019. He attended Asian Film Academy in 2017, Locarno Open Doors Lab in 2018, Global Media Makers LA Residency in 2019 and La Fabrique Cannes, 2021. Arifur Rahman’s film, Kingdom of Clay Subjects, has been showcased at Venice, Rotterdam, Busan, Seattle, Singapore, Shanghai, Melbourne, Raindance and many other international film festivals.

Current Project

Moving Bangladesh

Logline

Sick of being stuck in traffic –and in life –a struggling middle-class Bangladeshi entrepreneur creates a motorcycle-based ridesharing app that may change transport in developing cities, such as Dhaka, forever but must first overcome his family’s skepticism and a hostile political environment.