Movie night in the context of the Fair Week. Motion picture / BD, FR, DK, PT / 2019 / R. Hossain / Bengali with German subtitles / age restriction: 16
23-year-old Shimu works in a textile factory in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. In protest against the exploitative working conditions, she and her colleagues decide to form a trade union. Despite threats from the factory management and against growing pressure from her husband, she is ready to take up the fight for her rights.
Afterwards, there will be the opportunity for an exchange with the speaker and activist Cati Hauschild. Cati is studying Sustainable Management at the TU Berlin, where she is doing research on the supply chains of the textile and garment industry and is an activist in the Berlin action group of the Clean Clothes Campaign.
Rubaiyat Hossain is one of Bangladesh's few female filmmakers. She made the films Meherjaan (2011), Under Construction (2015) and Made in Bangladesh (2019). Her main areas of interest are Sufism, Bengali nationalism, the formation of Bengali modernity, and its correlation with female sexuality. Rubaiyat has worked for prominent women's rights NGOs in Bangladesh such as Ain O Salish Kendra and Naripokkho. She was also co-coordinator for the first international workshop on sexuality and rights organized by BRAC School of Public Health in 2007.
An event organized by Weltladen Greifswald in cooperation with Kabutze.
Admission: 5€Event starts at 8 pm.
Trailer: Made in Bangladesh