How a Bangladeshi film uses sand to explore the ‘fragility of urban, modern life’

How a Bangladeshi film uses sand to explore the ‘fragility of urban, modern life’

Sand City mines the fantastic from the ordinary. Bangladeshi filmmaker Mahde Hasan’s riveting feature debut follows two lonely individuals in Dhaka who share a preoccupation with sand.Hassan (Mostafa Monwar) pilfers samples of silica sand, limestone and soda ash from his workplace so that he may set up a glass factory of his own someday. Emma (Victoria Chakma) needs the sand for her cat’s litterbox. They prowl about like feral creatures, retreat…