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B.E.S. (Bangla East Side)
Sarita Khurana & Fariba Alam
2004
Color
45 minutes
US
English

B.E.S. (Bangla East Side)

B.E.S. (Bangla East Side) is a documentary portrait of four Bangladeshi teenagers growing up in the Lower East Side of New York City. Initially started as an after-school workshop at a local high school, the film follows Mahfuja, Jemi, Saleh and Maroofa as they travel between home and school, and as they negotiate their lives as young immigrant teens in post 9-11 America.
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