Bamboo Stories” (2019) is a documentary written and directed by Shaheen Dill-Riaz, which previously won Best Film at Film South Asia 2019, a festival of South Asian documentaries.
Bamboo Stories screened at Osaka Asian Film Festival
It follows the journey of a 70-metre raft made from bamboo stems (the cargo is the raft itself) as it makes a 300km journey from the forests of Sylhet, in North-Eastern Bangladesh, down the river Kushiyara. As the film follows the progress of the raft, the viewer learns the story behind the bamboo, from its felling the in forest to its being bundled and floated to the river via a series of man-made channels. Then there’s the matter of the business itself: the leaseholder, the wholesaler, the foreman and the bamboo cutters he oversees, the raftsmen and the retailers who haggle for the product as the raft wends its way past the ports; all must...
Bamboo Stories screened at Osaka Asian Film Festival
It follows the journey of a 70-metre raft made from bamboo stems (the cargo is the raft itself) as it makes a 300km journey from the forests of Sylhet, in North-Eastern Bangladesh, down the river Kushiyara. As the film follows the progress of the raft, the viewer learns the story behind the bamboo, from its felling the in forest to its being bundled and floated to the river via a series of man-made channels. Then there’s the matter of the business itself: the leaseholder, the wholesaler, the foreman and the bamboo cutters he oversees, the raftsmen and the retailers who haggle for the product as the raft wends its way past the ports; all must...
- 3/15/2021
- by Adam Webb
- AsianMoviePulse
The inaugural edition of the Indian Film Festival of London will be held from 25 to 29 August at London’s Riverside Studios. Anusha Rizvi’s Peepli Live will be the opening film of the festival while Abhishek Choubey’s Ishqiya will close the festival.
The other films that will be screened at the festival are Sanjay Sharma’s Dunno Y…Naa Jaane Kyun, Claire McCarthy’s The Waiting City and Pravesh Bhardwaj’s Mr. Singh Mrs. Mehta. Duane Baugham’s Bhutto, Deepa Mehta’s Nero’s Guests and Shaheen Dill-Riaz’s Koran Children are the documentaries that will be presented. The maiden edition of the festival will present awards in the feature and documentary category.
The Festival will also host a retrospective of filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra. Films in the retrospective will include Parinda, 1942: A Love Story, Eklavya: The Royal Guard and 3 Idiots. The proceeds of these films will be donated to Unicef.
The other films that will be screened at the festival are Sanjay Sharma’s Dunno Y…Naa Jaane Kyun, Claire McCarthy’s The Waiting City and Pravesh Bhardwaj’s Mr. Singh Mrs. Mehta. Duane Baugham’s Bhutto, Deepa Mehta’s Nero’s Guests and Shaheen Dill-Riaz’s Koran Children are the documentaries that will be presented. The maiden edition of the festival will present awards in the feature and documentary category.
The Festival will also host a retrospective of filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra. Films in the retrospective will include Parinda, 1942: A Love Story, Eklavya: The Royal Guard and 3 Idiots. The proceeds of these films will be donated to Unicef.
- 8/16/2010
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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