Eisenfresser

The playground of director Shaheen Dill-Riaz’s youth was the erstwhile white beaches of Chittagong in Bangladesh. Today the area is a graveyard for ships where thousands of workers, his old friends included, work on the wrecks with primitive tools, salvaging raw materials. While the Western media report of the destruction of the environment and dangerous working conditions, for the so-called iron-eaters the most important thing is to survive. (DOK.fest München)