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
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