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Goopy Bagha Productions Limited and Views & Vision Production have organised a photographic exhibition based on An Apple Tree Inside the Head, an unreleased film directed by Fazly Rabbi Mridha, at Alliance Française de Dhaka.
The exhibition opened on September 15 at La Galerie, Alliance Française de Dhaka, Dhanmondi, and will remain open to visitors until September 19 from 3pm to 9pm daily.
The opening was attended by anthropologist, public intellectual and orator Dr Manosh Chowdhury; theatre, television and film actor Jayita Mahalanobish; and independent filmmaker, Views & Vision Production founder and film producer Josim Ahmed.
The exhibition brings together a selection of photographs taken during the making of the film, offering a glimpse into its visual and emotional landscape.
Rather than revealing the film itself, the photographs invite visitors to explore its atmosphere, characters, landscapes, gestures and fleeting moments, allowing each viewer to construct their own understanding of the story through the images.
Reflecting on the exhibition and its alternative approach to presenting the film, producer Arifur Rahman said cinema was an artistic expression that should reach as many people as possible, but conventional distribution systems did not always allow films to find their widest audiences.
“With this exhibition, we are breaking away from those familiar routes and giving An Apple Tree Inside the Head a new life through photography,” he said. “Here, one can simply walk into a room, encounter the film from an entirely different perspective, and create a meaning of one’s own.”
Drawing on the enduring biblical story of Adam and Eve and the forbidden fruit, which has come to symbolise knowledge, temptation and the loss of innocence, An Apple Tree Inside the Head enters a shadowy world where faith, fear and the human mind become inseparable.
Mintu Mridha’s wife, Jasmin, and their son, Shohag, move through life as if caught in a trance, often wandering away from home without explanation.
Convinced that an unseen force has entered his family, Mintu turns to a saint, who gives him a blessed apple believed to possess healing powers. Yet the apple remains untouched.
As strange patterns begin to repeat and the boundaries between reality and illusion gradually dissolve, the apple takes on an increasingly mysterious presence. It becomes a possible cure, a temptation and a sign of something unknowable.
Trapped between devotion and doubt, Mintu is drawn deeper into a darkness that may belong to the supernatural, the human psyche or something far older.
Written and directed by Fazly Rabbi Mridha, the film represents an emerging voice in independent Bangladeshi cinema. It was produced by Bijon Imtiaz, Arifur Rahman and Josim Ahmed, reflecting their continued commitment to bringing bold, auteur-driven stories from South Asia to wider international audiences.
Fazly Rabbi Mridha is a young Bangladeshi filmmaker whose work explores complex psychological and human experiences through an individual cinematic language.
His film Payer Tolay Maati Nai received the Gautam Buddha Award for Best Feature Film at the 5th Nepal International Film Festival. It also received a Special Jury Mention for Best Debut Film at the 7th Jaffna International Cinema Festival in Sri Lanka.
An Apple Tree Inside the Head continues his exploration of distinctive and atmospheric storytelling, bringing together questions of faith, family, memory, fear and the boundaries between reality and perception.
Exhibition: September 15–19, 2026, Venue: La Galerie, Alliance Française de Dhaka, 26 Mirpur Road, Dhanmondi, Dhaka, Visiting hours: Daily, 3pm–9pm
Entry: Open to all.