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ANJUMA
Production Country (s) Bangladesh Production Company (s) Kaptai Productions
Genre Drama Production Spec 2K, Color, 95 min
Production Stage
(or Project Status)		 In Development Expected Date of Completion Q4 2021
Total Budget
(Negative Cost)		 325,000 USD Confirmed Financing 20,000 USD (Equity investor)
Fellow Name Rajib MOHAJAN
Director Rajib MOHAJAN Email of Director mohajanrajib@gmail.com
Profile of the Director Rajib Mohajan is a filmmaker and journalist based in Bangladesh. His journalistic works include documentaries and short stories that have been published in several national and international media outlets. He also has experience as a director-producer on TV commercials and TV film. Now he’s working as a producer on an independent feature film project I See Waves. The project has already been funded by Asian Cinema Fund in 2017 and promoted by the Asian Project Market in 2018. Anjuma is his debut feature film project as a writer and director.
Producer (s) Ivy Yu-Hua SHEN Email of Producer (s) ivyffe@gmail.com
Profile of the Producer (s) Ivy Shen is a Taiwanese producer with an ample experience in distribution, international sales and acquisition working with the eminent Taiwanese producer Patrick Mao Huang at Flash Forward Entertainment since 2015. As a production coordinator, her recent credits include An Impossibly Small Object (2018), directed by David Verbeek and selected in IFFR, and The Road to Mandalay (2016), directed by Midi Z and awarded the FEDEORA Award in Venice Film Festival. She is currently a 2019 international fellow at Busan Asian Film School (AFiS) and works as the producer for several shorts and feature films.
Logline A 28-year-old woman ANJUMA escapes from a refugee camp to the city in search of a man who vanished after promising her marriage. But on the journey, reality takes a heavy toll on her body and soul.
Synopsis On a winter’s night, Rohingya woman ANJUMA (28) escapes from her refugee camp by bribing medical workers leaving in an ambulance. She wishes to get to Chittagong, the second major city of Bangladesh, to look for a man named TAREK (37), an NGO medical officer whom she had met and fallen in love with. Although Tarek had promised to marry her, one day he just vanished from her world.
On her journey, Anjuma meets MUNIRA (30), a drug smuggler who helps her to survive in the city and to search for Tarek. Desperate, Anjuma gets involved in drug trafficking with Munira to earn money. Her only goal is to find Tarek and while waiting for that day, she starts to lose her confidence in Allah. But when she finds Tarek, she discovers he is married. Tarek feels guilty when Anjuma confronts him, and he begs her to keep their ‘relationship’ secret so that he won’t lose his reputation. The reunion rekindles
their love, bringing Anjuma to another realm of both love and hopelessness. Meanwhile, another threat emerges when Munira responds to Anjuma’s disobedience with violence and cruelty.
Having lost the purpose of her journey, and without any valid identification, Anjuma becomes a ghost in the city. Dejected, she turns to suicide in the hopes of leaving everything behind. On the brink of death, however, the irony of life bestows new hope on her, and she accepts a second chance to fight back.