Videos tagged with "eid al-adha"

Bata leather, meaning of Eid.MP4 [01:29]
The festival of Eid al-Adha is celebrated outdoors in Bangladesh. We took our videos right in our neighborhood of Baridhara in Dhaka. Eid is an important religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide to commemorate the willingness of Abraham (Ibrahim) to sacrifice his son Ishmael (Isma'il) as an act of obedience to God, before God intervened to provide him with a sheep— to sacrifice instead
Tags: Eid al-Adha, Bangladesh, Sacrifice

Korbani.flv [03:58]
Once I was reading a book about micro financial loans in Bangladesh that persuaded me to start shooting a film on that subject. Two weeks after I bought plane tickets for Kolkata and quit my job. In the beginning of November, I was in a bus, on my way for a country I didn't know anything about, even that most of the people don't speak English over there! Everybody was constantly staring at me or following me, all signs were written in Bengali letters, I could never know were I was .. This was really scary ... for the few first moments. Then, I had to experiment Bengali incredible sense of hospitality: anytime, anywhere no one would ever let me go to the hotel or the restaurant, although it wasn't difficult at all to travel as everybody just always pushed me in the right bus. In Dhaka City I met Sanjida Rahman, an incredible business woman that had more guts and grit than can be imagined. She took me to her family village Dhubaria, where I shot this short documentary about the muslim festival Eid al-Adha with the help of her oncle, AK Sayeedur Rahman. Back in Paris since two months I am working further on my film project before I can fly back to Bangladesh.
Tags: Bangladesh, Korbani, Muslim, Dhubaria, Tangail, Sayeedur Rahman, Sanjida Rahman, Nathalie Heydel, Eid al-Adha, sacrifice, cow

VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED: Eid al-Adha Cow Sacrifice in Bangladesh [02:40]
I just got back from a trip to Bangladesh, and this will be the first of a few videos which I will upload to document what I experienced there. I was hosted by the family of a friend of mine from school, and a few of his neighbors invited us to come watch them slaughter their cow for Eid on my first day in the country. "The Festival of Sacrifice," which is the second Eid festival, was being celebrated by Muslims around the world at that time (the end of November, 2009). This religious ...
Tags: eid, muslim, islam, cow, slaughter, sacrifice, allah, tradition, bangladesh, dhaka, trevor, dougherty, maddogza