Rubaiyat Hossain

Rubaiyat Hossain is a Bangladeshi film director, writer, and producer. She made the films Meherjaan (2011), Under Construction (2015) and Made in Bangladesh (2019). In 2023, she became the second female director to win a Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Director, for Made in Bangladesh. Made in Bangladesh was listed in Criterion Collection's hidden-gems of the 2010s. Hossain has started working on her fourth feature film, Difficult Bride. Hossain is also the founder of Sultana's Dream, a funding and mentorship grant to empower, promote and support the next generation of women filmmakers and storytellers in Bangladesh.