Indigenous Screen

07/08/2025

Please come and join us for a film screening and discussion titled “Crafting at the Edge”, focusing on the filmmaking of Indigenous youth.

Two films will be screened:
• Will Menle Return?, directed by Zopari Lushai
• A Snail Without Shell, directed by Mohin Rakhaine

The discussion will feature both directors as speakers:
• Mohin Rakhaine
• Zopari Lushai

The session will be moderated by Santua Tripura.

Date and Time: 8 August 2025, 5:30 PM
Venue: Sangskriti Bikash Kendra Bhaban, 1 E/1, Paribagh Road, Dhaka

22/10/2024

06/10/2024

https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/film-screening-of-mo-thenggari-my-bicycle-and-discussion-session/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1AfbnnRAGNA4v4DIQLBcQRWpJiEl_uIpefjZvtmzAWn6oDPxVlFkcboaU_aem_z1VauqJ3ZaqbyR72x0xbkg

The Indigenous Asia Initiative Steering Committee, Department of Asian Studies at UBC invites you to the screening of Chakma language film “Mo Thengari” (My Bicycle). The film was produced by Indigenous director Aung Rakhaine in 2015. It was banned by the censorship board in Bangladesh until 202...

26/09/2024

https://youtu.be/TkDqYGAd4J8?feature=shared

Words from director, Arnab Dewan. “After the release of Life is still not ours (2011), I worked on a prequel called Rajanagar (2013). Since its completion, the project remained shelved and was never made public.

Today, I am sharing it online.

I dedicate this to all the innocent lives lost in last week's mindless violence in Chittagong Hill Tracts.

This is a story of .”

Set in the eastern hinterland of present day Chittagong, the documentary reconstructs a Raja’s revolt against the establishment of the British East India Com...

24/09/2024

Indigenous Screen
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