Bangladeshi director Mahde Hasan’s debut feature film Sand City has been acquired by Bangkok-based sales company Diversion for worldwide sales (excluding Bangladesh and Switzerland).

The film will have its world premiere in the Proxima Competition at the 2025 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

Sand City , produced by Rubaiyat Hossain and Aadnan Imtiaz Ahmed (Khona Talkies and Cinema Cocoon), won the CNC Development Award at Locarno Open Doors and was showcased at La Fabrique Cinéma, Produire au Sud, and Film Bazaar. It also received Visions Sud Est support.

The film follows two characters tied to sand—Emma (Victoria Chakma), who finds a severed finger, and Hasan (Mostafa Monwar), who steals sand to fuel a delusional dream of a glass empire.