South Asia Competition
Barir Naam Shahana
South Asia Competition
Barir Naam Shahana
Dipa is raised by weak parents in a peculiar family dominated by her maternal uncle and aunt. Under their authority, she is married off to a widower in England over a trunk-call wedding ceremony to protect her from the dangers of teenage passions. Dipa suffers marital rape, refuses to settle, and escapes.
Aanon Siddiqua
Lutfur Rahman George
Iresh Zaker
Kazi Ruma
Kamrunnahar Munni
Mugdhota Morshed Wriddhi
Amirul Haque Chowdhury
Naila Azad & Arif Islam.
Leesa Gazi & Aanon Siddiqua
Xoaher Musavvir
Alex Unai Arrieta
Sukanta Majumdar (Sound designer)
Nahid Masud (On-location sound)
Sohini Alam & Oliver Weeks
Shihab Nurun Nabi & Rahima Begum
Tania Rahman
Leesa Gazi
Abbas Nokhasteh
Arifur Rahman & Bijon Imtiaz
Komola Collective
Openvizor & Goopy Bagha Productions Limited
Leesa Gazi
leesagazi@gmail.com
Leesa Gazi has dedicated her career to presenting stories told from women's perspectives. She is a writer, theatre practitioner, award-winning filmmaker, and co-founder of Komola Collective. Multiple plays written and translated by Gazi have toured nationally and internationally since 2008. She co-authored and performed in The Offies Award (UK) nominated play Birangona: Women of War, about the lives of sexual violence survivors of the Liberation War of Bangladesh, which she later developed into a documentary feature, Rising Silence (2019). The film won 15 awards worldwide. Her acclaimed Bengali novel, Rourob, translated into English as Hellfire by Shabnam Nadiya, is set to be published in Europe and America in 2024. Gazi has created around 50 pieces of content for many prestigious venues and organisations, including Shakespeare's Globe, The BBC, Ted Talk, Sadler's Wells, the Southbank Centre, Dr Denis Mukwege Foundation, and Akram Khan Company. She is a founding member of the Global Survivors' Network, SEMA, working on the Collective Memory Group.
