Director of the film, TarequeMasud, who was accompanied by his American wife who was the film's producer, received the award at an official ceremony of the festival that was held on the evening of May 25 in the central complex of the festival venue.
Tareque, who had been carrying the pain of losing her sister, all through his childhood and teens, at last, was able to relieve his memories of agony and love through the making and screening of the 35mm celluloid.
Tareque was a co-founder of alternative filmmakers' forum in the city, thus he became the central figure of a new type of sophisticated cine movement in Bangladesh.
Tareque observed that some over- enthusiastic political activists have influenced a section in the government to ban the film-- a decision that would actually lower the image of the government abroad.
The 98-minute film that portrays childhood of the director of the film, TarequeMasud, who grew up in a village and was educated in a madrassah, in the backdrop of the rising mass movement of the late sixties.
Masud says the lessons of the war bore heavily on modern Bangladesh, where Islamists came to power last year as part of the ruling coalition and human rights groups have reported attacks on the Hindu minority community.
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