Yasmine Kabir
2021
Tazreen
Yasmine Kabir
Tazreen documents the aftermath of the garment factory fire that occurred on November 24th, 2012, at Tazreen Fashions in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It was one of the deadliest industrial fires to have occurred in the history of the garments industry in Bangladesh, and was estimated to have killed at least 117 workers.
Tazreen
Roshi
Yasmine Kabir
The Rope (Roshi), directed and produced by independent filmmaker Yasmine Kabir, is a 10-minute silent documentary about the children who are employed in Dhaka to make rope from jute and work from dawn to dusk twisting, tying, knotting and weaving the fiber.
The Rope
The Last Rites
Yasmine Kabir
A silent film depicting the ship-breaking yards of Chittagong, Bangladesh, a final destination for ships too old to ply the oceans. Every year, hundreds of ships are sent to these yards. And every year, thousands of people come to these yards in search of jobs. Risking their lives to save themselves from hunger, they breathe in asbestos dust and toxic waste. The ship has to die and man has to help it die, as if man and vessel were united in common bondage. The Last Rites bears testament to the resilience of the human spirit.
The Last Rites