
Arifur Rahman is a globally engaged filmmaker from Bangladesh, crafting cinema that explores human relationships, society and the natural world — from festival features to social-impact documentaries.
Based in Dhaka and working across borders, Arifur builds films that travel — from the canals of coastal Bangladesh to the world's leading festivals. His work as a producer and director spans fiction and documentary, always in pursuit of one thing: a story worth telling well.
A graduate of the producing program at the Busan Asian Film School, he has shepherded internationally acclaimed films to Venice, Rotterdam, Busan and beyond, while directing documentaries that have reached the United Nations climate stage and global broadcast audiences.
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A quietly powerful drama that earned the Gender Sensitivity Award at the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival and the Audience Award at Karawan Fest in Rome — a film about the spaces women are told they cannot occupy, and the ones they claim anyway.
A cross-section of features, shorts and documentaries — produced and directed.





From Beyond the Waves, following Bangladesh's first female surfer, to In Search of Karam, screened at the UN Climate Change Conference COP24, Arifur's documentaries put human lives at the centre of the biggest questions of our time.
One in 36 Million took the Grand Prix at the WHO Health for All Film Festival — proof that a well-told story can reach anyone, anywhere.
Watch the DocumentariesCo-productions, development labs, festival strategy, or a documentary that matters — start a conversation.
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