Programme

UDITA is an ethnographic documentary that follows the lives of Bangladeshi women working in the fast fashion industry. The documentary highlights their fight for better working conditions, for instance for the raise of their salaries to a living wage and for better health and safety at work. UDITA also documents the losses that these women have had and still have to endure in the face of routinely relentless employers: the lack of family time, the lack of means to provide the best possible education for their children or the loss of loved ones in the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory.

The screening will be followed by a debate on ethical and sustainable fashion with Georges Kieffer, director of the BENU Village, Juliette Torabian, professor at the University of Luxembourg and member of the UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab, and fashion blogger Anna Seyser. This debate will provide an opportunity to reflect on the effects of consumerism, particularly on women, and to engage in a constructive discussion on the efforts that have been and still need to be made to achieve more ethical and sustainable fashion.

An aperitif will then be offered by the le Service de l’Egalité des chances de la Ville d’Esch-sur-Alzette.

• Documentaire by The Rainbow Collective


• Bangladesh, 2015
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• Duration : 01:15:04


• Bengali with French subtitles
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