In 76 minutes, »Handmade in Bangladesh« shows excerpts from the life and work of the people in Bangladesh. The episodic film takes up central questions about the environment and globalisation, which are closely intertwined with working and living conditions. The local population of the country uses their traditionally learned crafts to recycle plastic, bones or hair, for example, in order to ensure their own survival with the few resources available to them. In doing so, they act in a sustainable and environmentally friendly way, more by chance than strategically. For them, »One man's trash is another man's treasure".

Prof. Liz Bachhuber's many years of interdisciplinary cooperation with Prof. Eckhard Kraft, Professorship of Biotechnology in Resource Management, and Prof. Jörg Londong, Professorship of Urban Water Management, were decisive for the idea and later realisation of the project. In particular, Prof. Kraft's contacts in Bangladesh with Prof. Muhammed Alamgir and Prof. Afroza Parvin from the Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET) enabled the filmmakers to gain access behind the doors of small production facilities, which are otherwise closed to outsiders.

In the presence of Bachhuber and Wehking, the film award was presented in the house of the »Parco Naturale Regionale Sirente Velino« of Rocca di Mezzo in Abruzzo. In the framework programme of the award ceremony, the film was again publicly shown, discussed and honoured in Avezzano. The film festival »Cinema e Ambiente« exclusively presents films related to environmental and human rights issues and is closely linked to the Abruzzo region.

For more information on the film project »Handmade in Bangladesh«, see: http://handmade-in-bangladesh.de