Phaim is a young muslim of Bangladeshi origins. At 22, he lives with his family in Torpignattara, multiethnic neighborhood of Rome. He works as a stewart in a museum and is the leader of a music band. During a concert in which he's supposed to play, Phaim meets Asia, a girl that is his exact opposite: pure instinct, no rules. Between the two a sudden attraction occurs and Phaim will need to understand how to reconcile his love for this girl with the most unbreakable rule of Islam: no sex before the wedding night. The film depicts an accurate image of a multi-ethnic Rome and Italy today: home to a wide range of diaspora of many different community groups contributing with their own special cultures to the cosmopolitanism of the eternal city.
Phaim Bhuiyan
Phaim Bhuiyan (Italy, 1995) is from a Bangladeshi family and studies Video Design and Film at the Istituto Europeo di Design. He worked as an assistant director
on several films and has directed music videos and an episode of the Italian TV series “Yoroi” (2017). His first feature film, “Bangla”, has its world premiere at the Rotterdam International Film Festival.
