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CinemAmbiente in cooperation with Circoscrizione VI - Torino, organizes the film exhibition 'Ecokids 2011', screenings for the primary schools of the city. All the events will be introducedby an environmental expert.
Driven by famine, two farmers, Kholil and Gadu, leave northern Bangladesh for the coast where they take on seasonal jobs dismantling the decommissioned ships of Western shipping companies. Though harsh and dangerous, the work is done by thousands of workers who often fall victim to conditions of slavery. Using a human, sensitive approach, Shaheen Dill-Riaz takes an up-close look of this human drama, revealing the relationship of exploitation and dependence between the rich and the developing countries.
Shaheen Dill-Riaz (b. 1969, Bangladesh) is a journalist filmmaker and one of the founder members of the Dhaka International Short Film Festival. He currently lives and works in Berlin where he studied Art History at the Freie Universitàt before specializing as cameraman. His final year film was Sand and Water (2002), followed by The Happiest People in the World (2005).
“I wanted to immerse myself in a world which had been closed to me for a very long time. I was curious and I had expected to discover something new. But the unbelievable working conditions that the film shows were not the greatest surprise for me, but rather the administrative structure, which drives the people into a deadly debt trap. Even more appalling for me was the realisation that the attitude of this exploitative system is founded on the basic elements of the economic system in which we all live.”
Shaheen Dill-Riaz
Edizione 2008
Concorso Internazionale Documentari/International Documentary Competition
DOCUMENTARY
Germany , 2007, 85'
REGIA/DIRECTOR
Shaheen Dill-Riaz
TAGS:
Work, Waste, Globalization, Bangladesh