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Wandering, A Rohingya Story (2020)

Wandering, A Rohingya Story poster
Original title
Errance sans retour
Directed by
Olivier Higgins, Mélanie Carrier
Genre
documentary film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 17m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This documentary film follows life inside the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh, which shelters people fleeing the Rohingya conflict in Myanmar. It shows the daily reality of displaced families without a clear path home.

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What happens

Wandering: A Rohingya Story (French: Errance sans retour, lit. "Wandering Without Return") is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Mélanie Carrier and Olivier Higgins and released in 2020. The film is a portrait of the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh, which houses a large number of refugees from the Rohingya conflict in Myanmar. Portions of the film were screened in January 2020 as part of Errance sans retour, a multimedia exhibition on the Rohingya crisis at Quebec City's Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec in early 2020, alongside photography by Renaud Philippe. The full film had its premiere at the Quebec City Film Festival on September 19, 2020. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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