Shimu, 23, works in a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Faced with difficult conditions at work, she decides to start a union with her co-workers. Despite threats from the management and disapproval of her husband, Shimu is determined to go on. Together the women must fight and find a way to register their union.

Just when the people of an expanding Calcutta feel their dreams might be fulfilled, they hear the sound of things falling.

Just when the people of an expanding Calcutta feel their dreams might be fulfilled, they hear the sound of things falling.

Just when the people of an expanding Calcutta feel their dreams might be fulfilled, they hear the sound of things falling.

Next feature from Aditya Vikram Sengupta which explores the present-day Hindu-Muslim tension in India.

Next feature from Aditya Vikram Sengupta which explores the present-day Hindu-Muslim tension in India.

Set in the crumbling environs of Calcutta, Labour of Love is a lyrical unfolding of two ordinary lives suspended in the duress of a spiralling recession.

While Jonaki, an 80-year-old woman, searches for love in a strange world of decaying memories, her lover, now old and grey, returns to a world she is leaving behind.

Novera, a bride-to-be in present-day Dhaka, is in love with her groom and dreams of a fairytale wedding, but secretly struggles with her body’s resistance to wedding rituals. As stress and emotional pain intensify, a mysterious woman with long hair begins appearing in Novera’s imagination.

While Jonaki, an 80-year-old woman, searches for love in a strange world of decaying memories, her lover, now old and grey, returns to a world she is leaving behind.