Is It Good To Run Away? (2020)

The grind of daily life as a Brick Lane Bangladessi as seen through the eyes of Nazneen (Chatterjee), who at 17 enters an arranged marriage with Chanu (Kaushik). Years later, living in east London with her family, she meets a young man Karim (Simpson).

Mirada desafecta sobre la prostitución, rodada en Tailandia, Bangladesh y México, que fue galardonada con el Premio Especial del Jurado en la sección Horizontes del Festival de Venecia.

The story of the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 as seen through the eyes of a young boy.

Ayna is an actor and the prison is his stage. He slips into the characters of the powerful convicted in exchange of money and take their place in prison. This strange profession is borne out of a society that doesn't give him a chance to follow his passion of acting, but forces him to act in the real life. Falling in love with the girl next door changes his life equation and he decides to end this career with one last performance. But this one takes him too deep in the rabbit hole. The story unfolds on how an underdog survives in a society that is merciless and struggles his way out from the clutch of crime game which he is a part too.

Shimu tiene 23 años. Dejó su ciudad cuando era niña y ahora vive en Dhaka. Trabaja en la industria textil en condiciones muy duras y con un sueldo muy precario, de manera que decide unirse a sus compañeras de trabajo para reivindicar mejores condiciones laborales. A pesar de las amenazas de sus superiores para el cese de las presiones que ejercen ella y las demás mujeres, y la desaprobación de su marido, decide seguir en la lucha desafiando la adversidad segura de conseguir lo que persigue.

Three working-class teenage girls in a port city in Bangladesh escape daily hardships and stifling family lives by riding waves on their surfboards and grabbing hold of the fleeting and thrilling sense of freedom that brings.

The life of a girl takes a 360 degree turn after she meets with an accident which causes amnesia. The battle of her family and her lover continues as things keep getting worse for her.

Off the coast of Bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal is a tiny 'brothel island' populated by women forced to sell their bodies to men who arrive by the boatload. Each of the women came to inhabit the 100m long and 10m wide piece of land for different reasons, whether through a sister, the need for money, or in search of love and affection, but for all of them it is a life tougher than they could have imagined. Deepening their troubles is the island's existence at the frontline of climate change, and with the increase of cyclones, floods and soil erosion the prospect of losing their homes, and the island itself, is closer than ever. Beautifully shot and subverting expectation, Bad Weather is a documentary that carves out a message of hope in extreme adversity.

El monzón, uno de los fenómenos meteorológicos más poderosos del planeta, ha dado forma a la vida salvaje y a la cultura de Asia Meridional. Los vientos del monzón, cargados de lluvia, atraviesan en muy poco tiempo esta región, inundando totalmente enormes extensiones de tierra árida y sacudiendo de forma violenta la vida de sus habitantes, ya sean hombres, animales o plantas. Desde las costas del norte de Australia hasta los picos más altos del Himalaya, desde los desiertos de la India septentrional a los bosques ecuatoriales de Borneo, esta serie documental de BBC de cinco episodios viaja a través de las tierras del monzón. Por el camino muestra la variedad y la riqueza de las diferentes regiones, donde vida salvaje y culturas extraordinarias se han enfrentado —y sacado partido— a este tumultuoso fenómeno meteorológico durante miles de años

A group of men in North-Eastern Bangladesh are facing a dangerous mission. They are to conquer the river, with a 70 meter long raft. The ride is 300 kilometre long, always downstream. The freight: 25 000 bamboo trees. The men's path begins in the dense forests of the Sylhet region in North-Eastern Bangladesh. Millions of bamboo trunks are hacked down there and being slid down by the workers along the dangerous mountain-stream into the valley. The bamboos reach the river Kushiara through hundreds of these channels. Here, the trunks are bundled - a giant raft arises. Then the long journey begins.

A mother and her son return to their home in Sylhet, Bangladesh after 15 years abroad and try to retrace their roots. Beginning with the death of the father of the family, the film proceeds with the central characters seeking a link to their lives.

Two Bangladeshi girls born and raised in London have weddings arranged for them against their will by their family. Shahanara, the rebel of the family, banished from the family in her teens for being "too Western", has to swap her pink hot pants for a sari as she goes off to the airport to meet her new Bangladeshi husband. Her sister Hushnara is the opposite of Shahanara; a devout Muslim who agrees to marry so she doesn't upset her parents.

A young man who lives nearby an airport finds himself in trouble upon meeting a mysterious stranger.

This is a film which challenges our notions of child labor. It peeks into a world where the concept of childhood as we know it has no meaning, where children support their parents, and where work is just another part of growing up. This is Dhaka, Bangladesh. Following several children over a period of six years, A KIND OF CHILDHOOD is an attempt to focus on the realities of child labor, with real children, their struggles and dreams.

Children of War is a movie based on the true events of the 1971 Genocide. Can we, in search of power, become animals? A genocide; neglected! The first use of rape as a weapon of war; undocumented! The lives of millions; unaccounted! The culprits; unpunished!

During the 1947 partition of Bengal, a man and a woman cross a river to begin life anew. Their journey manifests many roles against the backdrop of some horrific events and loss of life.

A documentary following an Estonian fashion designer Reet Aus on a global tour to explore the origin process and the environmental footprints of today's fast paced fashion industry. On the road the mission takes an unexpected turn towards trying to introduce her "upcycling" inspired product line to some of the major fashion retailers to increase awareness of the massive resource waste built into the current product lifecycle.

Thirty million people. A statistic. But this statistic is made up of individuals. Bangladesh is often described as the most vulnerable country on the planet. in the face of a changing climate. Find out why.

Based on 1947's book 'Ekoi Namer Golpo' by Hasan azizul Haque.