Are You Listening!

Rakhi lives with her husband Soumen and their son Rahul in the village Sutarkhali in Bangladesh. For generations their families have been cultivating the lands at the coastal belts in order to make a living. In May 2009 the land got hit by a tidal surge, floating their homes and their gardens and changing the family’s live from one day to the other. ‘Are You Listening!’ is a film about Rakhi’s hope to ensure a dignified future for her son Rahul, about her jobless husband’s frustration for failing to provide for his family, and about a community’s struggle to get back the land they have lost. Described as a “visual symphony and an ode to life” by the 35th Festival Cinéma du Réel, Paris, the documentary is yet anything else than a victimisation of a family that lost their basis of existence. It is a carefully drawn portrait of a family, ready to cope with what they are left with and shape their future as self-determined persons.