Grasshopper Film, Gratitude Films acquire US rights to ‘Rehana Maryam Noor’

Grasshopper Film and Gratitude Films have jointly acquired US distribution rights to Abdullah Mohammad Saad's Cannes Film Festival's Un Certain Regard selection "Rehana Maryam Noor" from sales agent Films Boutique. The film will open in cinemas in early 2022 followed by digital, home video, and non-theatrical releases.

"Rehana Maryam Noor" is the first Bangladeshi film to be selected for the Un Certain Regard section of the prestigious Cannes Film Festival.

The film revolves around Rehana, an assistant professor at a medical college. While she continues to balance her roles as a medical professional, a mother, and a teacher among others, her life changes once she witnesses an unexpected incident involving a female student. The incident propels her into protests and a fight against the system on behalf of the student and her daughter.

Grasshopper Film is a distribution company dedicated to the release of independent, foreign, and documentary film. It was founded by Ryan Krivoshey. Mumbai and Los Angeles based Gratitude Films was founded by international festival programmer and acquisitions executive Anu Rangachar to acquire and distribute world cinema with a focus on Asian and Indian films.

"Rehana Maryam Noor '' is produced by Jeremy Chua of Singapore's Potocol, in association with Bangladesh's Metro Video. The project was made with the support of the Doha Film Institute Post Production Grant 2020 and the Busan Asian Cinema Fund. It is co-produced by Sensemakers (Bangladesh) with Girelle Production (France). as associate producer.

Rajib Mohajan, Saydul Khandaker Shabuj and Adnan Habib serve as co-producers on the film, with Ehsanul Haque Babu as executive producer and Johann Chapelan as associate producer.