Bad Weather Trailer (2012)

Trailer for the documentary Bad Weather, which screened at the 2012 Vancouver International Film Festival.

What appears at first to be a fairly routine documentary about female sex workers in an isolated Bangladeshi community gradually turns into an unflinching, near-Breughelian vision of a brothel island whose very existence is threatened by rising sea levels and devastating storms. Fluid and poised cinematography and editing, and an extraordinary colour palette anchor Giovanni Giommi’s unforgettable and humane portrait of the ostracized yet remarkably spunky women and children who endure there.