| TITLE OF THE FILM | Drained by Dreams |
| DIRECTED BY | Shekh Al Mamun |
| LANGUAGE | Korean, Bengali (English subtitles) |
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COUNTRY | South Korea, Bangladesh |
| DURATION | 84 minutes |
| SPECIAL NOTE | Indian Premiere |
PRINCIPAL CREW & CAST
| WRITING | Shekh al Mamun |
| CINEMATOGRAPHY | Lee Jeong Hoon |
| EDITING | Lee Il Hee |
| LOCATION SOUND | Go Young Il |
| SOUND DESIGN & MIXING | Go Young Il |
| MUSIC | Amari Miho |
| PRINCIPAL CAST | Robin Shiek, Park Ji Yeol, Rashed Al Mamun, Le Anh Ton |
ABOUT THE FILM
Selim was a migrant worker in Korea, preparing to his return back home. He needed a place to stay for awhile, and he visits a furniture industry to meet his friend Rahman. Selim could not go back to his home country due to his family’s request, he gets a job at a furniture factory. Selim’s new life begins!
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Shekh Al Mamun was born in 1974 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He came to Korea as a migrant in 1998 when he was a university student. Since 2001, he has been a member of the human rights movement for migrant workers. Currently, he is a full time activist for the Asia Media Culture Factory, an organization supporting arts and culture projects for immigrants. He directed several fiction films and documentaries, including ‘Paki’ (2013), ‘Goodbye’ (2014), ‘Day by Day’ (2016), ‘Diaspora’ (2016), ‘Journey into the dream’ (2017), ‘This is not a house’ (2018), ‘Second Home’ (2018) ‘Why not’ (2020) ‘Perm’ (2021) ‘No Way Out’ (2022) and ‘Miho’s Journey’ (2023).
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
As 2023, there were 2.43 million migrants living in South Korea, 1.3 million of whom were migrant workers and 430,000 unregistered migrants without visas. Migrant workers are working in 3D industries where Koreans do not want to work, treated as machines because of their different skin colours and poor language skills. Sometimes they are treated only as money machines by their families back home. Eventually, they are not allowed to mix in any society.
Director Shekh al Mamun, who was born in Bangladesh and lived the life of migrant workers at a furniture factory in Maseok, Korea in 1998. He said in ” Drained by Dreams “, “Migrants are everywhere, they are always with us, and it is an unstable and difficult journey anywhere to leave the place of life where they were born and raised and live in another country.”.
