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INDIA PREMIERE |
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| Ironeaters |
| Germany / 2007 / 85 min / English / Bengali |
| Shaheen Dill-Riaz |
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| Synopsis |
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| The annual famine in the north of Bangladesh forces farmers Kholil and
Gadu to leave their homeland along with their relatives. They hire
themselves out as seasonal labourers in the ship breaking yards in the
south of the country. In the yards that line the beaches of Chittagong,
they dismantle oil tankers and vast container ships by hand. Director
Shaheen Dill-Riaz is witness to a systematic exploitation, which only
very few of the workers can escape. Coming from the poverty stricken
north these seasonal workers not only do the most dangerous work in
the yard, but they are also trapped into an inescapable debt. |
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| Director's Biography |
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| Having lived in Dhaka till 1992
where he worked as a journalist and
with Dhaka International Short Film
Festival, Shaheen Dill-Riaz moved to Berlin after he was
awarded a cultural fellowship by the
Goethe Institute. There he studied
Art History at the Free University of
Berlin, and then Cinematography at the HFF Konrad Wolf Film School
in Potsdam-Babelsberg. His previous films include Sand and Water (2002) and The Happiest People In The World (2005). |
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| The Rights Angle 2009 |
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| The conditions of the 25,000 ship breakers in Bangladesh who work for less than USD1 a day are inhumane and present
a myriad of occupational and health hazards; workers are not equipped with safety equipment, training or unions. Child
labour, lack of access to health services, and constant exposure to hazardous waste run rampant through the shipyards.
Like in today's modern day slavery that affects 20 million people worldwide, workers here too are entrenched in debt
bondage, exchanging hard labour for inflated loan repayment. |
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Awards |
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1st Prize International Competition, Film
South Asia, Nepal 2007,
Grand Prix 2007 Festivals Le Festival
International Du Film D'Environment, 1st
Prize Tel-Aviv International Documentary
Film festival 2008,
Best Documentary Film, Achtung Berlin!
Festival, 2008 |
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Website |
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www.eisenfresser-film.de |
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Print Source |
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Lemme Film Gmbh / Grabbestrabe 6,
D-22765, Hamburg
info@lemmefilm.de
49-40-41359404 |
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