Two Meetings and a Funeral

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.

Vijay Prashad

Samia Zennadi

Zonayed Saki

Fidel Castro

Yasser Arafat

Indira Gandhi

Anwar Sadat

Amirul Islam

Atef Berredjem

Muammar Gaddafi

• Naeem MohaiemenDirector

Release date

June 7, 2017

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 25m

Genres

Documentary