Mohammed and his family awoke one morning to the sound of gunfire in their village in Myanmar. The father of three describes how his son Ismail went from having a relatively normal life playing soccer with his friends, to trekking through rain-drenched forests to escape Myanmar, and falling sick with diphtheria while trying to settle into life at a refugee camp in Bangladesh. Mohammed and Ismail’s story echoes those of some 700,000 other Rohingya, members of an ethnic Muslim minority forced to flee their homes and their country following a violent campaign by the Myanmar military starting in August 2017. They join hundreds of thousands of other Rohingya people in Bangladesh, uprooted by earlier cycles of violence and persecution.
2019 /
Finalist
WE ARE ROHINGYA
Director & Producer: Melissa Pracht,
Executive and Field Producer - Melissa Pracht; Post-Production - Stina Hamlin and East Coast Digital
12-year-old Tatheer embarks on a week-long Police boot camp for girls from a social housing estate in Copenhagen. Far from home, deep in the woods, she navigates grueling rituals, elusive social dynamics, and personal setbacks to find her place in this tender and revealing coming-of-age story.
2018 |
9 min
Bangladesh
Languages: Rohingya And English Vo
AWARD:
Finalist
Type:
XR/AI
Themes:
Justice, Education, Persecution, Refugees, Vr/360
