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Truth and Beyond (0+)

Bangladesh, 2006, colour, 50 min.
Director: Ahmed Muztaba Zamal
Traveling across Bangladesh meeting mystics and ascetics, the filmmaker explores the different aspects of popular Islam in Bangladesh, including its different sects. Islam, as a classically formal religion shackled with edicts, could never influence the common people of Bangladesh. But a simplified version emerged - an indigineous form - one that embraced music. Muslims who don`t accept religion as dogmatic or fundamental could practice it, winning the hearts of common Muslims of the country. Though the roads to Islam are many, the central truth remains the same.

Ahmed Muztaba Zamal

Ahmed Muztaba Zamal

is a noted film activist in Bangladesh. Presently he is the Secretary General of «Rainbow Film Society», a leading film society in Bangladesh, and runs a quarterly cine-magazine titled «Celluloid». He is also the founder and festival director of the Dhaka International Film Festival. In 1994, he founded the Bangladesh Chapter of FIPRESCI, and was elected Secretary General of the International Film Critics Association of Bangladesh. «Truth and Beyond» is his first documentary.
Bangladesh, 2006, colour, 50 min.
Director: Ahmed Muztaba Zamal
Traveling across Bangladesh meeting mystics and ascetics, the filmmaker explores the different aspects of popular Islam in Bangladesh, including its different sects. Islam, as a classically formal religion shackled with edicts, could never influence the common people of Bangladesh. But a simplified version emerged - an indigineous form - one that embraced music. Muslims who don`t accept religion as dogmatic or fundamental could practice it, winning the hearts of common Muslims of the country. Though the roads to Islam are many, the central truth remains the same.