Tareque Masud

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Tareque Masud (Bangla: তারেক মাসুদ) is a Bangladeshi film director who makes films in Bangla. His most widely appreciated films centre around the Bangladesh Liberation War. Masud mentions in his website and on many interviews his childhood experience while studying in a madrasa. The Liberation War fought against Pakistan disrupted his life as it did the lives of countless others. After the war, he pursued a general education and completed his postgraduate Masters degree from Dhaka University. His first film was a documentary on the Bangladeshi painter SM Sultan which he completed in 1982. Since then he directed several short films and documentaries. Along with his wife, Catherine Masud, he runs a film production house based in Dhaka. His first full-length feature film, Matir Moina (English release title "The Clay Bird) which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival, derives inpiration from his own experiences. He won the International Critic's Award in the Cannes film festival in 2002 for this film. In general, Matir Moina has been received with critical praise and has toured the international circuit. It is one of the first Bangladeshi films to be widely circulated and has been greeted in general with enthusiasm for realistic depictions of life without the melodrama that is prevalent in many other South Asian films.