Zobayer Raihan
Directing
Biography
Zobayer Raihan is an Independent Filmmaker and award-winning editor from Bangladesh. Raihan made five short and feature-length documentaries and edited several fiction and documentary films, which were selected, nominated, and awarded to several prestigious film festivals. Raihan is now pursuing his PGD in Editing at the Bangladesh Cinema and Television Institute (BCTI). He is an alumnus of the Documentary Summer School in the Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland.
Known For
This desktop documentary portrays the student movement in July and August 2024, the fall of the Sheikh Hasina regime, and its aftermath.
'Independence 2.0'
This documentary is based on the boys of Jaipur, an outlying island of Tanguar Haor (vast areas of swampland) in Sunamganj, Bangladesh. They are the primary victim of global warming. Climate change is affecting their cropping, fishing, and living habitat. Now their only livelihood is to offer folk songs to visitors from outside.