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Synopsis: This story is about a tea community’s mundane life where old chieftain Padmoluv,

awaits his death and often reminisces the past controlled by colonial masters. School drop-out Chandan wants to elude the exploitation. However, young worker Sojoy, feels trapped

but continues the grind. Every plant in the garden is a mute witness to the unsaid stories of their lives. In death, struggle and escape, these characters become archetype of entrapped

tea garden worker in Bangladesh.

Director: Humaira Bilkis

Year of release: 2021

Duration: 55m 52s

Genre: Creative Documentary

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Country of Origin: Bangladesh

(Garden of Memories)

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Synopsis: Shobe, Aisha and Suma break away from the drudgery of their lives by joining a

surf club in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The girls fight family pressure and social judgement, for a few hours on the waves each day and gain confidence as their natural skill and prowess

gains attention and praise. The joy and freedom of the waves are a stark change from the abuse and hardship they face at home. Soon they are poised to make history as Bangladesh’s

first women surfers. However, the fate of the club itself hangs on the leadership of the coach who has his own challenges. The odds stack up but the girls refuse to give up. Balancing the

freedom of the waves with the restrictive realities of their circumstances, we experience the thrill and struggle of coming-of-age in a developing country.

Director: Elizabeth D Costa


Duration: 1h 26m

Genre: Feature Documentary


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Synopsis: Intimate portraits of five creative, distinctive people who stand up for their cause,

and are therefore not always understood by their environment. Their stories and way of life stand for freedom of expression. The personal stories of barrister Sumon, model Moushumi

Huda, baul Nazrul Shah Fakir, gender activist Anonnya Banik and lyricist Mokul Mosharraf.

Director: Arnob Chakrabarty


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Genre: Documentary

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childhood friend and everyday playmate is forced to become a child bride. With new insight

about social norms, Jamal begins to notice his surroundings and realizes his need for a social identity. His search puts his mother into risk, as she has a past, she is forced to hide. Faced

with the dilemma of losing his mother, Jamal stands up to social oppression to find that all is not lost.

Director: Bijon


Duration: 1h 28m

Genre: Feature Fiction (Drama)

Festivals:

Chicago South Asian Film Festival.

International Film Festival of South Asia, Toronto

Dallas Bengali Film Festival.


(Kingdom of Clay Subjects)

Director: Rubaiyat Hossain

Year of Release: 2015

Duration: 1h 28m

Genre: Feature Fiction (Drama)

Festivals:

Prix du Jury International (2016)

Prix Emile Guimet au FICA Vesoul 2016


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Synopsis: By the coastal belts of Bangladesh, in a small village named ‘Sutarkhali’, RAKHI (27)

lives with her man SOUMEN (32) and their son RAHUL (6). Fighting against all the odds of the

woods, along with around 100 families, they cultivate the land for generations. When RAHUL

was only 4 years old, a tidal surge hit the coastal belts of Bangladesh. For RAKHI, SOUMEN

and RAHUL life is not the same anymore. ‘Are You Listening!’ is about RAKHI’s hope to ensure

a dignified future for her son RAHUL. It’s about her jobless husband SOUMEN’s frustration

for failing to provide for his family and about a community’s struggle to get back the land they have lost.

Seasons change topography, even relations… Yet after the rain... They go out with spades and shovels to reclaim life again, Are You Listening!

Director: Kamar Ahmad Simon


Duration: 1h 30m

Genre: Feature Documentary

Festivals:

International Jury, Cinéma du réel, Paris

International Jury, MIFF, Mumbai


(Are you Listening)

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Synopsis: In a small beach town in Bangladesh, fearless Ayesha confronts social prohibition

and violent opposition from her poverty-ridden family to surf. Like few other youngsters, she and her best friend Sohel are trained by self-made Bangladeshi surfer, Amir. As this unusual

surfing enthusiasm gets international attention from surfing community and documentary film makers, fund money generates jealousy, squabbles, and power tussles. While surfing

brings newfound fame and glory to Sohel, it is the ‘prohibited’ love for surfing that brings forced marriage and a life of misery for Ayesha. After seeking an extravagant, reckless lifestyle

in the capital city, derailed Sohel returns back to Cox’s Bazar, where their passion for surfing reunites them and unleashes a new hope for surfing in the small beach town.

Director: Taneem Rahman Angshu


Duration: 2 hour 30 minutes

Genre: Drama

Festivals: Bangladesh National Film Award for

Best Film (2019)


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Synopsis: Meenalap (Soliloquy of the fishes) revolves around a Bengali couple migrated from

a remote village of West Bengal to Pune city, working in a garments factory and struggling to meet the ends while expecting a child.

The film delves in to the psychological changes of them in the realm of urban alienation in

absence of own family and culture while becoming a mother and father from husband and wife for the first time.

Director: Sejuti Suborna Tushee


Duration: 28 minutes

Genre: Short Drama

Festivals:

Main Awards:

Eurasia International Film Festival 2018

Asian Film Festival in Rome 2018

Didor International Film Festival, Tazikstan 2018.

Country of Origin: Bangladesh-India

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Synopsis: When Amador Coro gets out of prison for having provoked a fire, nobody is waiting

for him. He returns to his home town, a small village hidden in the mountains of rural Galicia, to live with his elder mother, Benedicta, and three cows. Life goes on calmly, following the

rhythm of the nature. Until the night when a fire devastates the region.

Director: Oliver Laxe

Genre: Drama

Topics: Prison, Rural countries

Festival:

The Cannes Film Festival 2019

Chicago International Film Festival 2019

Hainan International Film Festival 2019

Stockholm Film Festival 2019

Country of Origin: Spain

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Synopsis: Anna is working as a violin teacher at a music high school in Berlin. Her French

husband Bronsky is a violin maker. They have a ten-year-old son. At the annual entrance

exam, Anna decides against the will of her colleagues for the admission of a boy in which she

sees a great talent. She wants to prove to her colleagues that she was right about him and

soon devotes more time and attention to her new student Alexander than to her own son

Jonas and thus brings the two boys into competition with each other. At the same time, her

marriage to Bronsky becomes more complicated. Anna withdraws more and more from her

family and begins an affair with her colleague Christian, who encourages her to participate

in a quartet. When Anna fails at her own concert with Christian, she feels under pressure. What she did not succeed in shall be achieved by her gifted student Alexander. More and more obsessed she tries to drive him to peak performance. On the day of the interim exams,

a tragic accident occurs…

Director: Ina Weisse

Genre: Drama

Topics: Music

Festivals:

German Film Critics Association Awards 2021

Haifa International Film Festival 2020

Hamburg Film Festival 2019

Stockholm Film Festival 2019

Country of Origin: Germany

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Synopsis: Jack has always wanted a little brother to play with, and when Gio is born, his

parents tell him his brother is a “special” child. That’s when Gio turns into a superhero with amazing powers in his big brother’s imagination, like the ones in his comic books. Over time,

however, Jack learns the truth: his brother has Down syndrome, a condition Jack decides to keep secret. When he goes to high school and falls in love with Arianna, he hides Gio’s very

existence from her and his new friends. But how can you expect someone to love you if you conceal such an important part of yourself? In no time, the truth comes out, and Jack realizes

that Gio’s energy and vitality are contagious. Gio’s original outlook does indeed change the world, just like a superhero.

Director: Stefano Cipani

Genre: Comedy

Topics: Family, Handicap, Childhood

Festivals: European Film Awards 2020

Country of Origin: Italy

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Synopsis: Anne Walberg is a master in perfumes. She creates fragrances and sells her incredible gift to many companies. She is a diva, selfish and temperamental. Guillaume is her

new driver and the only one who dares facing her. This is probably why she does not fire him.

Director: Grégory Magne

Genre: Comedy

Topics: Family, Work, Human relations, Solitude

Festivals: Cabourg Romantic Film Festival 2020

Country of Origin: France

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Synopsis: A reindeer-breeding Sámi girl who is exposed to the racism of the 1930’s at her boarding school, starts dreaming of another life. But to achieve it, she has to become

someone else and break all ties with her family and culture. At the start of the film, 78-year-old Christina, a Sami woman whose name as a child was Elle-Marja, comes with her son

Olle and granddaughter Sanna to a small town somewhere in Swedish Lapland to attend her younger sister’s funeral. Christina does not want to be there. She does not like the Sami

people, calls them thieves and liars, and is disturbed when people speak to her in her first language, Southern Sami, which she can no longer understand. She even refuses to spend

the night at her late sister’s family home and would rather check into a hotel.

Director: Amanda Kernell

Genre: Drama, History

Festivals: Hamburg Film Festival 2016

Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival

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Riviera International Film Festival

Tokyo International Film Festival 2016

Country of Origin: Sweden

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Synopsis: Romy has to stay with her grandma Stine after school. It’s so boring. Her hairdresser

Grandma is strict and in love with her salon. But grandma’s memory is not the best, and

charming Romy can be at some help with customers and economy.

Director: Mischa Kamp

Genre: Drama

Festivals:

Chicago International Children’s Film Festival 2019

Ale Kino! - International Young Audience Film

Festival 2019

Film by the Sea International Film Festival 2019

International Children’s Film Festival Bangladesh

2020

Luxembourg City Film Festival 2020

Olympia International Film Festival for Children

and Young People 2019

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2013 and held hostage for 398 days. The film recalls the experiences of Daniel Rye who was

held hostage for 13 months by ISIS.

Directors: Niels Arden Oplev, Anders W. Berthelsen

(co-director)

Genre: Drama

Topic: Crime, Terrorism

Festivals: Bodil Award

Danish Film Awards (Robert) 2020

Zulu Awards 2020

Country of Origin: Denmark

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Synopsis: Under the impacts of a changing climate, the world changes, it has already

changed. In a distant and near future, both fantastic and absurd, men and wo-men survive

as they can. Following a man, a slender figure between Tati and Buster Keaton, we discover

through scenes of his daily life how devastating the effects of climate change are on humans

and nature. How do we barricade against excessive heat or cold? How will it be to go to a

supermarket, or a zoo filled with different animals and species? A disturbing and hilarious

ride in the future, that is already our present.

Directors: Faouzi Bensaïdi (2019)


Genre: Short Film

Topic: Climate Change, Environmental Issues

Country of Origin: Morocco

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Synopsis: On an island not far from the mainland, the young father seagull is anxiously

guarding the new born gulls by the nest and awaiting the return of the mother seagull. The

mother seagull has given up everything she has, but the baby seagull is still hungry. The

father seagull had flown away in search of more food...The main diet of black-tailed gulls

is pelagic fish in the sea, molluscs and aquatic insects in coastal wetlands and estuaries.

However, with the overfishing of offshore fish and the pollution of the marine environment,

seagulls can catch fewer and fewer small fish in the upper layer.

Directors: Leon Wang (2019)


Genre: Short Film


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Synopsis: It’s late in the evening. A man leaves a building, lights a cigarette and smokes it

in one drag. He casually flicks the stub away – everything as always. Only this time... all the

cigarette butts in the city become alive.

Directors: Alireza Hashempour (2016)


Genre: Animation


Country of Origin: Germany

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minutes documentary introduces viewers to the resilient people living on the front lines of

climate change and explores how these unlikely heroes have managed to innovatively adapt to a warming climate while reforesting their island. This inspirational film promises to leave

audiences around the world believing that simple solutions really can have huge impacts.

Directors: Craig Norris

Year: 2016


Genre: Documentary


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of a city. His eighty-year-old grandson Giulio is reading him an article from the newspaper

about melting glaciers, the greenhouse effect, methane and CO2... “What is C-O-2?” asks the child. “Do you remember the carbon dioxide we studied?” says Grandpa. “The one the trees

breathe?” asks Giulio. The day after, they’re leaving for a short tour instead of going to school, searching for an old tree.

Directors: Silvio Soldini

Year: 2019


Genre: Short Film


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milking a goat while her little boy is assisting her by holding the horns of the goat. There

is a flock of goats and sheep waiting to be milked before the young shepherd takes them to the mountains to graze all day long. She cooks Quruti, one of the most popular meals in

the entire Afghanistan but especially central Afghanistan. For some years people have been making less and less Quruti as they struggle to feed their animals because the mountain

pastures have dried up. Climate change has affected rain patterns and soil fertility in the whole region.

Directors: Shahrbanoo Sadat

Year: 2019


Genre: Documentary


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irony of the fact that newspaper warn us about deforestation although they are made of

paper themselves.

Directors: Burku Sankur and Geoffrey Godet

Year: 2014


Genre: Animation, Short Film


Country of Origin: France

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perishing due to worrying levels of water pollution from chemicals used in the agrobusiness

industry and plastic. This short movie captures the relationship between the Xingu community and their river, and the emotions of one of them when he is taken to see Sao

Paulo rivers. A poetic movie to denounce water pollution and the challenging prospects for the future of both indigenous people and city folks.

Directors: Daniela Thomas

Year: 2019


Genre: Documentary, Short Film


Country of Origin: Brazil

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