Afsans Long Day ( The Young Man Was, Part II) (2014, Naeem Mohaiemen)

The second film Afsans Long Day (2014) is just as searching, this time inside the memories of a former leftist, Afsan Chowdhury. The Bangladeshi historians diary fragment for Himal magazine in Nepal is quoted in the film and gives Mohaiemen the title for his series: The young man was no longer a terrorist. Chowdhury recounts the polices surprise at finding Marxist books in his house during a search, sniffing trouble from his beard. History has often testified that the state likes clean shaven men. It is likely that Chowdhury may not have known that the Cuban revolutionaries were known as the barbudos, the bearded ones (a phrase that did not please the women among them Vilma Espín, Celia Sánchez, Teté Puebla and Haydée Santamaria, for starters).