Samsul Islam Shopoon, an independent filmmaker, writer, producer and social organizer. and founder of Khiyo films. His first short documentary titled “Turags Boat” was shot with a handheld camera in 2004 while in high school. He has in the past worked part-time in various production houses from 2008-2019 as a producer, writer and director. He is the founding president of the " Mahanagar Film Society at Gazipu; of which he still is in charge of; for the last 6 years.
Films shown in Divvy Film Festival London 2024
Goalbari is a remote village on the banks of the river Chitra in Bangladesh. More than fifty fishermen families of the Malo community call it their home. They have been making livelihood by fishing with otters for six hundred years.
Latika Biswas, wife of a Fisherman Shyam Biswas, is a struggling woman. The family has a tug-of-war with poverty. Latika takes care of the otters like her own children. The otter eats the food and keeps the whole house chirping. Changes in climate and economic tides place immense pressure on this very old human-otter relationship.
Latika
dir. Shamsul Islam Shopon
run time: 29 mins 33 sec
production year: 2022
language: Bengali (with English subtitles)
country: Bangladesh
documentary short
