Within a few months, the Kutupalong refugee camp has become the biggest in the world. Out of sight, 700,000 people of the Rohingya Muslim minority fled Myanmar in 2017 to escape genocide and seek asylum in Bangladesh. Prisoners of a major yet little publicized humanitarian crisis, Kalam, Mohammad, Montas and other exiles want to make their voice heard. Between poetry and nightmares, food distribution and soccer games, they testify to their daily realities and the ghosts of their past memories. Around them, the spectre of wandering, waiting, disappearing. In this place almost out of space and time, is it still possible to exist?
Credits
Screenplay : Olivier Higgins & Mélanie Carrier
Voice Over : Mohammed Shofi
Writing of Narration : Kala Miya (Kalam), Olivier Higgins, Mélanie Carrier
Cinematographer : Renaud Philippe & Olivier Higgins
Editor : Amélie Labrèche & Olivier Higgins
Color : Jérome Cloutier
Sound : Olivier Higgins & Kala Miya (Kalam)
Sound mix : Luc Boudrias
Sound editor : Pierre-Jules Audet
Music : Martin Dumais
Cast : Kala Miya (Kalam), Mohammed Haras and his family, Montas.
Categories
- Ethnography,
- Memory,
- Race + Ethnicity,
- Feature Length,
- Immigration,
- Poetry,
- Religion,
- Resistance,
- Works by Women,
- Genocide,
- War + Conflict
Screening Formats
- DVD,
- AppleProRes,
- DCP,
- H.264