With 4.5 million workers in the textile sector, 80% of them women, female workers are on the front line in a repressive patriarchal society.

Inspired by the true story of a female textile worker in Dhaka who founded the country’s first women’s union, Made in Bangladesh tells the story of Shimu’s revolt when, against all odds, management threats and her husband’s anger, she decides to set up a union with other female colleagues.

A powerful film that questions the difficult conditions in which our clothes are made, but also the courage of those who fight to assert their rights.

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.