Wandering, a Rohingya Story captures daily life in the world’s largest refugee camp, to May 13

The sobering, poetic documentary hears from families forced to flee Myanmar, streams for free at the Cinematheque

By Gail Johnson

Wandering, a Rohingya Story (L’errance sans retour) streams at the Cinematheque across Canada for free until May 13

AT THE 13-square-kilometre Kutupalong settlement in Bangladesh, more than 600,000 persecuted Rohingya Muslims live in ramshackle shelters, displaced and stateless.

Quebec City filmmakers Mélanie Carrier and Olivier Higgins teamed up with esteemed photojournalist Renaud Philippe to capture the day-to-day life in this desperate place. A young refugee named Kala Miya (Kalam), who was a key collaborator during the filming, shares his poetry of hope and horror throughout.

Nominated for Best Feature Documentary and Best Cinematography in a Feature Documentary at the upcoming Canadian Screen Awards, the beautifully shot film raises urgently needed awareness of this ongoing human crisis.

Read Stir’s review here.  

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