Two remote villages of the Tripura and Mro people in the Chittagong Hill Tracts recently had a showing of various films on the 17th and 18th of December. The initiative was taken by Ruwang Collective Arts, a team that aims to protect and promote the cultural arts of the Bangladesh indigenous communities.
The project, which had been in the works for the past six months, was done in the hopes of introducing global cinema to the deprived villagers, and provide entertainment as well as an opportunity to gather knowledge.
Aside from screening movies from different countries and eras, including the century old “City Lights”, a film in the Kokborok language of the Tripura people was also shown that garnered an overwhelming amount of excitement from the residents of all ages.
Ruwang Collective Arts are optimistic about holding more screenings in different places of the Hill Districts. For the coming years, they also plan to make an anthological film based in the five indigenous languages of the CHT, and also a program on the region’s multidisciplinary arts in the capital, Dhaka.
Written by Aye Than May
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