Two Meetings and a Funeral

Two Meetings and a Funeral (2017)

Documentary

Two Meetings and a Funeral explores Bangladesh’s historical pivot from the socialism of the 1973 Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting in Algeria to its ideological counterpoint, the emergence of a strong Islamic perspective at the 1974 Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) meeting in Lahore. Centred on Bangladesh’s navigation of these two historic meetings, as well as its fight for United Nations recognition (vetoed by China, acting as a proxy for Pakistan), the film considers the erosion of the idea of the Third World as a potential space for decolonialism, liberation theology and socialism. In particular, it looks at how a transnational Islamic ‘ummah’ concept was used against socialist forces.

Director: Naeem Mohaiemen

Casts

	Vijay Prashad as
	Samia Zennadi as
	Zonayed Saki as
	Fidel Castro as
	Yasser Arafat as
	Indira Gandhi as
	Anwar Sadat as
	Amirul Islam as
	Atef Berredjem as
	Muammar Gaddafi as

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