Bangladesh, a land of water

Film produced in partnership with the Bangladeshi NGO Friendship screened during the COP21 in Paris

The film explains the problems of Bangladesh in the face of climate change, commented by Yann Arthus-Bertrand with the contributions of the founder of the NGO Friendship, Runa Khan. The association's floating hospitals, the "chars" sand islands that shelter the population of the river waters, the river traffic in Dhaka, the small villages of the Sundarbans, the impressive shipbreaking yard in Chittagong, so many places among others described in this film to illustrate the point.

Bangladesh is located in the flat, low-lying delta formed by the confluence of the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers. The latter is called the Jamuna as it enters Bangladeshi territory, and the former becomes the Padma as it meets the Jamuna shortly before Dhaka.
The Meghna, meanwhile, joins the Padma downstream from the country's capital. The alluvium deposited by these rivers creates plains that are among the most fertile in the world.
Bangladesh has 58 rivers on either side of its international borders, which creates particularly difficult water-related political problems; it also shares riparian areas with India.

Most of Bangladesh is less than 12 metres above sea level and about 10% of the land area is below sea level. 80% of the rainfall falls during the five-month monsoon season (June to October), while only 20% of the land area is protected from flooding and equipped with drainage and irrigation.
Only four areas lie outside the delta: the Sylhet Hills, the Madhupur Hill Tracts, the hilly Chittagong Hill Tracts and the Barind area.

Bangladesh Aerial Stock Footage

Film produced in partnership with the NGO Bangladeshi Friendship, screened at COP21 in Paris. Cineflex stabilized camera - Papa Sierra on Bell 407 helicopter.
Carbon emissions are offset as in each of our shoots, a very imperfect solution that increasingly leads us to abandon the helicopter and the long set-up of our teams in favor of local companies working with drones, unfortunately with a less rich quality of shots.