the unity

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Tareque Masud, in his premier of his film Runway in Chittagong. Tareque Masud (Bengali: তারেক মাসুদ; 6 December 1956 -- 13 August 2011) was an award-winning Bangladeshi independent film director. He was known for directing the films Muktir Gaan (1995) and Matir Moina (2002), for which he won two international awards, one of them the International Critics' Prize, FIPRESCI Prize, in the Directors' Fortnight section outside competition at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. In 2012, he received Ekushey Padak, the highest civilian award of Bangladesh posthumously. Filmography: Sonar Beri (The Chains of Gold), 1985 Adam Surat (The Inner Strength)(16mm, 54 mins), 1989 Dir: Tareque Masud Documentary on the life and art of the Bangladeshi painter S.M. Sultan. Se (The Conversation)(35mm, 10 mins), 1993 Dir: Tareque Masud, Shameem Akhter Short fiction about a strained reunion between a man and a woman. Unison (Umatic video, 4 mins), 1994 Animated film about the unity of humankind. Muktir Gaan (The Song of Freedom)(35mm, 78 mins), 1995 Dir: Tareque & Catherine Masud Feature length documentary film about a troupe of traveling musicians during the Bangladesh Liberation War '71. Muktir Kotha (The Story of Freedom)(Betacm SP, 82 mins), 1996 Dir: Tareque & Catherine Masud Oral history documentary about experience of ordinary villagers during 1971 Liberation War Voices of Children (Betacam SP, 30 mins), 1997 Dir: Tareque & Catherine Masud; Prod: Unicef/Audiovision Documentary on working children in Bangladesh. In the Name of Safety (DVCam, 25 mins), 1998 Dir: Tareque & Catherine Masud; Prod: TVE London/Audiovision Documentary on human rights abuses in Bangladesh Narir Kotha (Women & War)(Betacam SP, 25 mins), 2000 Dir: Tareque & Catherine Masud Documentary on experience of women survivors of war. Matir Moina (The Clay Bird)(35mm, 98 mins), 2002 Dir: Tareque Masud; Producer: Catherine Masud; Production: Audiovision/MK2 A feature film based on the director's childhood experience in a madrasa in rural East Pakistan during the turbulent 1960s. A Kind of Childhood (Betacam SP, 50 mins), 2002 Dir: Tareque & Catherine Masud; Prod: Xingu Films/Audiovision A documentary on the lives and struggles of working children in Dhaka city, followed over the course of six years. Ontarjatra (The Homeland), 2006 A film about a divorced lady who is returning to her homeland with her son to attend her former husband's funeral. Runway Premiered on 2 October 2010 Kagojer Phool (The Paper Flower), Forthcoming Noroshundor (The Barber)