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DHAKA, Oct 13, 2025 (BSS)- Bangladeshi filmmaker Rabiul Alam Rabi's upcoming feature film "Kill Me Like a Dog" has won the European Work in Progress (EWIP) K-13 Studios Award at the eighth fest held at Hamburg this year.

The film, one of eight projects under the "Remembering Monsoon Resolution" initiative organised by the Ministry of Cultural Affairs with the assistance of the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, was showcased at the event in Hamburg. The three-day (September 29 - October 1) fest was a part of Filmfest Hamburg's Industry Days.

The film"'Kill Me Like a Dog", produced in collaboration with Norway, received the K-13 Studios Award, which includes Dolby Atmos mixing support worth 10,000 euros from Berlin-based K-13 Studios.
 
The movie is expected to be released early next year, Rabiul Alam Rabi wrote, directed, and produced the film being inspired from Franz Kafka's novel "The Trial". 

The story focuses on the life of an ordinary banker in Khulna who suddenly finds himself trapped in an absurd judicial process planned by the state's intelligence forces- without knowing his alleged crime.

According to sources at the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, more than 300 professionals from the European film industry, including producers, distributors, financiers, festival organisers, and marketers attended the two-day EWIP fest, which seeks to identify and promote promising upcoming films.

This year's EWIP received a record 240 submissions from European productions and co-productions, out of which 27 films are in mid or last stages of post-production and were shortlisted.
 
Among those, 14 films received awards, including some from outside Europe but co-produced with European studios, such as films from Brazil and Peru.

Discussing his film, director Rabiul Alam Rabi said, "This film reimagines Kafka's "The Trial" in the suffocating political landscape of contemporary Bangladesh where fear has become a daily companion, justice a farce, and  truth has lost its meaning."