Shaheen Dill-Riaz

In his critically acclaimed documentary film Ironeaters, filmmaker Shaheen Dill-Riaz follows poverty-stricken farmers who try to escape the annual famine that strikes their home in northern Bangladesh. They trade in their plows for a blowtorch and begin to work as ship- wreckers, risking their health and their lives for a …

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The happiest people on earth are said to live in Bangladesh. Follow filmmaker Shaheen Dill-Riaz as he tries to find out: how happy are people over there? The Happiest People is a powerful visual journey that shows how director Dill-Riaz reconnects with four old friends in …

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Beginning with a legend about the Jamuna River in his native country of Bangladesh, filmmaker Shaheen Dill-Riaz draws us into a bizarre world of floating islands. The Chars Islands, inhabited by the Chauras are a peculiar place to live. At least six months every year, the entire …

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