Two Meetings and a Funeral

Two Meetings and a Funeral explores Bangladeshs historical pivot from the socialism of the 1973 NonAligned Movement NAM meeting in Algeria to its ideological counterpoint the emergence of a strong Islamic perspective at the 1974 Organisation of Islamic Countries OIC meeting in Lahore Centred on Bangladeshs navigation of these two historic meetings as well as its fight for United Nations recognition vetoed by China acting as a proxy for Pakistan the film considers the erosion of the idea of the Third World as a potential space for decolonialism liberation theology and socialism In particular it looks at how a transnational Islamic ummah concept was used against socialist forces