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Coran-Children

Keywords

  • childhood
  • community
  • education
  • Erik Lemke
  • Label: docfilm42
  • religion
  • work

Director

  • Shaheen Dill-Riaz

Documentary, Independent

1h 29min

16+

Bangladesh
Germany
2009

BENGALI

GERMAN

German-Bangladeshi filmmaker Shaheen Dill-Riaz was granted access to a madrasa in Bangladesh - where filming is actually strictly forbidden. The training in these schools qualifies boys to eventually become Koran teachers and to appear as clerics at ceremonies of all kinds. Children from poorer backgrounds in particular attend madrasas as this supposedly gives the parents spiritual protection and the promise of a good afterlife.