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My Bicycle
Indigenous Film Screening
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Description
My Bicycle, a film by Aung Rakhine, banned in Bangladesh and the first indigenous feature length to come out of the country, tells the story of Kamal. Kamal, a member of the Chakma indigenous group, living in the Chittagong Hill Tracts decides to create his own business carting people back and forth on his bicycle, rather than work in the city. The story tells of the broader troubles in the region.
Watch a two minute Al Jazeera news piece about the controversy of film.
Join us at The Bookclub basement for this one-off film screening and find about The Chittagong Hill Tracts, an area in Bangladesh where many indigenous communities; collectively known as Jummas, live side by side but continue to have their rights abused by the local government, despite the signing of a 1997 Peace Accord.
All donations for tickets will go directly to the charity Survival International, an organisation campaigning globally for tribal peoples' rights. Find out more about their work supporting the rights of Jummas in the Chittagong Hill Tracts on their website.
There will be plenty of literature to take away with you about Survivals' work and the challenges indigenous people face globally and we will also get the chance to watch Survival's short film Mine, about the Dongria Kondh (based in Odisha - Eastern Indian) and their resistance to Vedanta's mining project.
