A son dies by suicide. His family lives with the silence he left behind.
Acting
Shikha Karmakar's wordless grief will wreck you.
Direction
Talat Ahmed lets silence do the screaming.
Cinematography
Dhaka's humidity becomes a fifth character.
Director
Talat Ahmed
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 'Bangladesh New Wave'—young filmmakers rejecting commercial formulas for unflinching social realism. Talat Ahmed shot this while still a student at Dhaka University.
The title 'Dheu' (Wave) refers to both grief's recursion and the tidal wave of 1971—two histories the family cannot separate.
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