Which isnвЂ™t to say this is touristic National Geographic fare, however pleasing the Ganges Delta views we take in along the way. Distribution potential is also strong, though most likely in streaming formats that wonвЂ™t do complete justice to the filmвЂ™s rough-edged widescreen spectacle. Arriving nine years after SimonвЂ™s last theatrical documentary, вЂњAre You Listening!вЂќ - a study of a community recovering from ruinous flooding that won top honors at CinГ©ma du RГ©el - вЂњDay After вЂ¦вЂќ is the second part of a loosely defined вЂњwater trilogy,вЂќ and should gather considerable steam on the festival circuit. The loose, entertaining result is equal parts leisurely travelogue, observational social study and droll real-life comedy of errors, and premiered in competition at IDFA to an enthusiastic audience reception. Boarding a creaky, century-old paddle steamer for a two-day river commute from the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka to the countryвЂ™s Khulna region, Simon documents the journey with both geographical and sociopolitical fascination, drinking in the scenery while wryly observing the tangle of classes, castes and character types on deck. Bangladeshi filmmaker Kamar Ahmad Simon applies much the same philosophy to his delightful documentary вЂњDay After вЂ¦,вЂќ albeit with the accompanying glamour removed.

From вЂњShow BoatвЂќ through вЂњShip of FoolsвЂќ to вЂњTitanic,вЂќ if a certain strain of Hollywood melodrama has taught us anything, itвЂ™s that all of human life is to be found on a passenger boat - our dreams and desires and social differences somehow made clearer at some distance from dry land.

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