Documaker Tareque Masud makes a confident transition to narrative drama with "The Clay Bird," returning to his childhood in the politically turbulent period before East Pakistan gained independence ...

World art cinema has lost an important voice. Bangladeshi filmmaker Tareque Masud, the acclaimed director of “The Clay Bird,” has been killed in a bus crash near Dhaka. His wife, Chicago-born producer ...

Over the span of the semester, the Human Rights Institute has shown three different films related to the topic of human rights. The film series, which took place in Konover Auditorium, featured two ...

Asia Society notes with sadness the passing of Bangladeshi filmmaker Tareque Masud, who was killed in a traffic accident near Dhaka, Bangladesh, on August 13, at the age of 54. Masud is best known for ...

Hypnotic musical sequences link parallel stories in this absorbing 2002 drama, set in eastern Pakistan on the eve of its 1971 secession and rebirth as Bangladesh. Determined to shield his son from ...

Though The Clay Bird has a very specific and interesting historical backdrop, its greater appeal lies in the story of people caught in the conflict between politics and religion, modernity and ...