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MADE IN BANGLADESH

 

ITALIAN PREMIERE

 

FILM TITLE: Made in Bangladesh

DIRECTOR: Rubaiyat Hossain

COUNTRY: Bangladesh, France, Denmark, Portugal

2019 – 119 mins – Bengali with English subtitles

 

A textile worker fights for employee rights after a co-worker is killed in a fire at her factory.

Shimu, 23, works in a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Faced with difficult conditions at work, she decides to start a union with her co-workers.

Despite threats from the management and the disapproval of her husband, Shimu is determined to go on. Together the women must fight and find a way.