By Rubaiyat Hossain

Made in Bangladesh

Ticket

Wednesday 13 March – 19h30
Follow by the event – Made in Bangladesh : the dark secret behind our clothes
Screening followed by a discussion on the ecological, economic and social consequences of the textile industry, here and elsewhere.
Salle communale du Petit-Lancy
Avenue Louis-Bertrand 7-9

A group of workers from a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, join forces to form a union after one of them was killed in a fire. Young Shimu becomes the leader of the protest by getting signatures, stealthily capturing images of her workplace, and pressuring bureaucrats not to get stuck on paperwork. The manager and the boss, who do not hesitate to withhold the women’s wages or to force them to sleep in the suffocating factory, fight in every way the attempts to organize the union. On their side is also Shimu’s patriarchal husband, even if he’s unemployed.

Swiss Premiere
Section : Fiction - Out of Competition
Country : Bangladesh, France, Denmark, Portugal
Original language : Bengali
Subtitles : French, English
Duration
95’
Year
2019
Director
Rubaiyat Hossain
Producer
Les films de l’après-midi
Writers
Philippe Barrière
Rubaiyat Hossain
Casting
Rikita Shimu
Novera Rahman
Parvin Paru
Deepanwita Martin
Mayabi Maya
Photography
Sabine Lancelin
Editing
Raphaëlle Martin-Olger
Sujan Mahmud
Son
Elisha Albert
Jacques Pedersen
World Sales
Pyramide International