【對媽媽說不出口的事 Things I Could Never Tell My Mother】
Humaira Bilkis / 2022 / 80’ / France, Bangladesh / Digital / COLOR
導演：胡邁拉．比爾基斯
本片述說我與父母，尤其是母親的關係，我們共同居住於孟加拉達卡。自2002年朝覲聖地麥加後，曾是熱情藝術家的母親開始遵循伊斯蘭教法，與世隔絕。因伊斯蘭教義，她敦促我快結婚，別再拍片。我想解決分歧，答應陪她前往朝覲，並揭露我有印度教徒男友。但疫情，我被迫留在父母身邊，目睹他們健康日漸惡化。我試著接受與母親之間仍存在的共通點。
This film tells the story of my relationship with my parents, especially my mother, while we are living under one roof in Dhaka, Bangladesh. For a long time, my mother was a passionate artist. She passed on to me her love of poetry, theater, and film, which became my profession. But ever since she made the Hajj, the great Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, in 2002, she has changed profoundly. She now lives cloistered in our apartment, following the precepts of Sharia law, rejecting the richness of her previous life. She keeps urging me to get married and to stop making films, since Islam forbids any human representation. When she suggests that we undertake the Hajj together, I accept her invitation: it will be an opportunity for us to resolve our differences, but it will also be the time for me to announce to her that I am in a relationship with a Hindu man. But the COVID-19 pandemic makes our trip impossible. Forced to live behind closed doors with my parents as their health deteriorates, I try to come to terms with what my mother and I still have in common.