Film about street-connected children and climate change

Watch the award-winning film Mighty Afrin: in the time of floods directed by Angelos Rallis. The film has featured at International Film Festivals including Dhaka, Vancouver and Ji.hlava Documentary. It is a blend of documentary and fiction starring one of the young people from LEEDO who took part in the Street Child Cricket World Cup 2023.

• Discussion about street connected children and climate change
• Display of photographs by children who have survived on the streets of Dhaka
• Short film about the work of LEEDO with children on the streets
• Light Refreshments

About Mighty Afrin (2023), by Angelos Rallis [1h 32m]:

In one of Bangladesh’s low-lying coastal areas along the Brahmaputra River, a 12-year-old orphan named Afrin lives on a flood-ravaged island with no electricity. Her relatives want to marry her off which is illegal though common practice but Afrin is not like other girls, she has plans and a mind of her own. When her home is inundated by floods, she decides to leave behind the only world she’s ever known and embark on a perilous solo boating journey to find the father she’s never met, in one of the most densely populated cities in the world. In Dhaka, a city brimming with danger and mystery, Afrin faces the impossible, but befriends a group of fellow orphans and never gives up hope of reuniting with her father and living a better life.

Watch the film trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DShSDL3GFVc

Date: Saturday 27 April 2024

Time: 2pm – 4.30pm

Venue: Hason Raja Centre, 117 Vallance Rd, Whitechapel, London E1 5BW

Limited seats. Entrance by donation

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