Bangla Surf Girls - Film Screening

Join the Center for Asian Studies, International Film Series CU Boulder, and The Alma Collective for a special screening of "Bangla Surf Girls" — an observational coming-of-age documentary about three teenage girls who get a rare sense of agency over their lives when they join a surf club. Over the course of three years, we follow Suma, Ayesha and Shobe as they fight unsurmountable odds to follow their dreams.

At a time when so many girls around the world are told what they can and cannot do, "Bangla Surf Girls" offers a quiet but powerful counterpoint. This film invites us to see agency and self-determination as something worth claiming, no matter the obstacles in the way, reminding us that freedom often begins with one small, defiant choice.