As soon as a lifeline of northern Bengal, Bangladesh’s Karatoya River now drifts by Bogura as a fragmented, polluted channel, the place local weather change and human neglect quietly reshape livelihoods, reminiscence, and on a regular basis life.
Flowing by the guts of Bogura, the Karatoya River bears the load of a protracted, seen decline. As soon as considered one of northern Bengal’s main waterways, the river right now seems narrowed, stagnant, and burdened with waste; its floor is calm, and its disaster is deeply rooted. This brief documentary observes the Karatoya as each a bodily panorama and a lived presence, formed by local weather stress, city encroachment, air pollution, and disrupted movement.
As dry seasons lengthen and rainfall grows erratic, the river’s pure potential to resume itself collapses. Farmers battle to irrigate, former fishers lose their livelihoods, and concrete communities dwell beside a river decreased to a drain and a well being hazard. The movie, using quiet visuals and private reminiscences as a substitute of statistics, contemplates the loss that happens when a river progressively disappears from day by day life.
Latest dredging efforts provide momentary aid, however the movie asks a deeper query: can a river survive with out collective care?
Biography of Administrators
Md. Rowfel Ahammed (born 1997) and Md. Sadik Sarowar Sunam (born 2007) are rising filmmakers from Bogura, Bangladesh. Rowfel is an MSS pupil in Sociology at Authorities Azizul Haque Faculty with a robust curiosity in movie, artwork, and pictures. Sadik is a twelfth Grade pupil at TMSS Faculty and Faculty, drawn to artistic studying and new experiences. Each accomplished a Workshop on Documentary Filmmaking organized by the Bogura Worldwide Movie Competition underneath the supervision of documentary filmmaker and photographer Mohammad Rakibul Hasan. Via this workshop, they made their first documentary movie, “Karatoya” (2026), exploring environmental change and native tales from Bogura.
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