The director of Rising Silence.
‘I am an accidental filmmaker, really. I am not formally trained as a director or scriptwriter. Certainly, I did not set out to make Rising Silence – I did it simply because I had to.’
When Leesa Gazi was a child growing up in Bangladesh, her father, a freedom fighter, would often talk in hushed tones to other adults about the so-called ‘Birangona’. It wasn’t until she was 17 that he answered her questions about them.
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