Documentary Films on Bangladesh – Part 9

August 24, 2024October 2, 2016

Non-fiction, special interest, or documentary films on Bangladesh by non-Bangladeshi filmmakers covered issues like microfinance, climate change, poverty, population, prostitution, child labor, ready-made garments, women, intermarriage, shipbreaking, travel, etc. Still, hundreds of real stories on various subjects are waiting to be told. Some independent Bangladeshi filmmakers started making documentary films very slowly, although the numbers … Read more…

Wasfia – Short Doc

July 16, 2016July 13, 2016

Wasfia – Short doc on Wasfia Nazreen – the first Bangladeshi woman to climb the Everest and the first Bangladeshi to scale the Seven Summits. The documentary was made on 2016 by Sean Kusanagi and will be shown in Oakland, California as part of 2016 Women Sports Film Festival. Duration: 11 minutes Country: Nepal/USA Year: … Read more…

Documentary Films on Bangladesh – Part 8

August 23, 2017June 27, 2016

Since its birth, Bangladesh has produced more than 2100 films until 2015 but film genre wise they are exceptionally limited. Most of the movies in Bangladesh are some variations of drama. Therefore, other categories of filmmaking are almost absence or neglected. The documentary is one such genre. It is not appreciated, not popular, not promoted, … Read more…

Last Man in Dhaka Central – A documentary by Naeem Mohaiemen

February 8, 2016

Last Man in Dhaka Central (The Young Man Was, Part 3) Directed by Naeem Mohaiemen 2015, Bangladesh/Netherlands/USA 82 min. In English, Dutch, Bangla; English subtitles Mohaiemen’s look at the failure of the 1970s revolutionary left continues in the third part of his The Young Man Was series (part two, Afsan’s Long Day, premiered at Doc … Read more…

Last Man in Dhaka Central – A documentary by Naeem Mohaiemen

February 8, 2016

Blockade – A documentary by Arif Yousuf

January 23, 2017February 7, 2016

Blockade – A documentary by Arif Yousuf 85 Minutes, 2015 The Blockade documentary is a story of how Quaker and Jewish activists along with Bangladeshi expats shed light on the Nixon administration’s covert support of the genocide in Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) in 1971. Equipped with just canoes and paddles, the young activists risked everything … Read more…

Tiger, Tiger: A film on Bengal Tigers of Bangladesh

September 23, 2016August 21, 2015

Bengal Tigers of Bangladesh are one of the most beautiful animal in its territory. They are exquisite, magnificent, royal, dangerous and in danger. It is sad that the Royal Bengal Tigers (Panthera tigris tigris) of Bangladesh are in decline. In a recent report, it has been suggested that Bangladesh may have 100+ tigers left instead … Read more…

Documentary Films on Bangladesh – Part 7

June 17, 2015

Fictional film industry in Bangladesh is dominant, dramatic, distorted and surreal but still profitable. Therefore, non-fiction films or documentaries are neglected. Also the genre is not popular. Documentaries made by Bangladeshi filmmakers are rare, however, some new generation of independent filmmakers are trying to change the scenario. We will cover that story in another post. … Read more…

Documentary Films on Bangladesh – Part 6

August 25, 2024March 28, 2015

Forty-five documentary films on Bangladesh were previously listed in five parts – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4, and Part 5. Here are a few more. They are in random order. Bangladesh was part of a documentary or an episode in a document series.