Moshari
2022 · 22m · Bangladesh
Directed by Nuhash Humayun
Genres: drama, horror, thriller
In a post-apocalyptic Bangladesh ravaged by vampiric creatures, two sisters take shelter beneath a mosquito net for the night — but their survival depends as much on surviving each other as the darkness outside.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Humayun's debut on the international circuit announced a genuine genre voice: a horror film rooted in Dhaka life wielding the mosquito net as a universal emblem of precarious shelter, recognised across fourteen festivals.
Bangladeshi vampire-apocalypse inside a mosquito net, Peele and Ahmed EPing, sisters surviving each other. The cultural specificity plus the genre execution is a genuine combination. Yes.
Vampire-apocalypse horror in Bangladeshi domestic spaces with the mosquito net as central symbol — Jordan Peele and Riz Ahmed executive-producing is a strong stamp. Twenty-two minutes of sister-survival horror in a culturally specific frame is genuinely fresh.
Festivals
- SXSW 2022, Grand Jury Award
- BFI London Film Festival 2022