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Bangla Surf Girls

In the water, Bangladeshi teens Suma, Ayesha and Shobe are mighty, riding ocean waves with a fluidity, ease and mastery. On land, their lives are more tethered–due to lack of resources, patriarchal limitations, and generational divides.  Bangla Surf Girls is a beautifully observational coming-of-age documentary about these three teenage girls and how they get a rare sense of agency over their lives when they join a surf club. Over the course of three years, we follow them as they fight insurmountable odds to pursue their dreams.
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The Silent Echo

Four teenagers from a remote mountain village spend their days in an abandoned bus on a vast, sparsely populated ridge in Nepal, playing music. When a band competition is organized in a neighboring town, they must gather the money and even more challengingly, the courage, to be part of it in this stunningly set Oscar-longlisted short.
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Dingi

A group of rebellious children play a clever trick on the old boatmen who do not allow them to swim in the river Dhaka.