Country : India / Italy
Year : 2012
Duration : 88'
Rating : 15+
Subtitle : English
Year : 2012
Duration : 88'
Rating : 15+
Subtitle : English
12 Des 2013 | SOC | 14:30
Synopsis:
Rubel, seorang anak penyelundup beras dari India ke Bangladesh berumur empat belas tahun. Tiap hari dia melintasi perbatasan internasional, sungai Ganga, yang mengkikis rumahnya di dataran India ketika dia berusia empat tahun. Bertahun-tahun kemudian sebuah pulau yang rapuh disebut Char muncul di tengah-tengah sungai besar tersebut. Keluarga Rubel dan banyak tuna wisma lainnya menetap di wilayah tandus ini dengan penjagaan dari tentara perbatasan. Dia bermimpi untuk kembali ke sekolahnya yang dulu di India tapi kenyataan memaksanya untuk menyelundupkan barang-barang ke Bangladesh. Dia berjuang ketika musim penghujan datang mengakibatkan banjir, sungainya meluap kembali. Senyum Rebel seolah berkata, “Char boleh saja musnah tapi kami tak akan musnah.”
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Meet Rubel, fourteen-years-old boy smuggling rice from India to Bangladesh. Every day he crosses the international border, river Ganga, which eroded his home in mainland India when he was just four. Years later a fragile island called Char formed within the large river. Rubel’s family and many homeless people settled in this barren field controlled by border army. He dreams of going his old school in India but reality forces him to smuggle stuff to Bangladesh. He fights on while monsoon clouds arrive inviting flood, the river swells up again. 'Char may disappear but we won’t’, smiles the boy.
Highlights :
• Busan International Film Festival, South Korea, 2012 (competition)
• Berlin International Film Festival, Forum, Germany, 2013
• CHOPSHOTS, Jakarta, Indonesia, 2012 (competition)
• Dubai International Film Festival, UAE, 2012 (competition)
• Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Japan, 2013