Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p ‘Are You Listening!’ (Original title in Bengali: শুনতে কি পাও!: Shunte Ki Pao!), is the debut feature-length (90 minutes) Creative Documentary by Architect-turned-Filmmaker Kamar Ahmad Simon. It was the ‘Curtain-Opener’ of the 55th DOK Leipzig in Germany (2012), and won the ‘Grand Prix’ in the 35th Cinéma du Réel held in Paris (2013). It was also in the ‘Official Selection’ of the 25th International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA) in Netherlands (2012) and in the New Asian Current Competition (NAC) of 25th Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in Japan (2013). Written, directed and also filmed by Kamar over a span of 20 months living in a remote coastal village (Sundarbans) of Bangladesh, it is an observational cinema inspired in Cinema Vérité or Direct Cinema style, a genre almost missing until now in Bangladesh. The film is centered on a family, a small community and their struggle to reclaim the land they lost in Aila, (a tidal surge) that swept over Bangladesh in 2009. Set against the backdrop of Climate Change, the film celebrates the joy, dream and the resilience of the common people of Bangladesh.. }
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- Are_You_Listening! abstract "‘Are You Listening!’ (Original title in Bengali: শুনতে কি পাও!: Shunte Ki Pao!), is the debut feature-length (90 minutes) Creative Documentary by Architect-turned-Filmmaker Kamar Ahmad Simon. It was the ‘Curtain-Opener’ of the 55th DOK Leipzig in Germany (2012), and won the ‘Grand Prix’ in the 35th Cinéma du Réel held in Paris (2013). It was also in the ‘Official Selection’ of the 25th International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA) in Netherlands (2012) and in the New Asian Current Competition (NAC) of 25th Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in Japan (2013). Written, directed and also filmed by Kamar over a span of 20 months living in a remote coastal village (Sundarbans) of Bangladesh, it is an observational cinema inspired in Cinema Vérité or Direct Cinema style, a genre almost missing until now in Bangladesh. The film is centered on a family, a small community and their struggle to reclaim the land they lost in Aila, (a tidal surge) that swept over Bangladesh in 2009. Set against the backdrop of Climate Change, the film celebrates the joy, dream and the resilience of the common people of Bangladesh.".