Filmart: Bangladeshi Filmmaker Documents the Plight of the Rohingya People: "A Tragedy with a Very Human Face"

The Hollywood REPORTER

3/19/2019 by Karen Chu

 

 

 Image courtesy of Abid Hossain Khan

                                                                Abid Hossain Khan

Documentary director Abid Hossain Khan's debut feature 'Belonging' is told from the perspective of a six-year-old girl as she searches for her missing family in the sprawling Rohingya refugee camps across the border from Myanmar in Bangladesh. 

 

The plight of the Rohingya people, whose ethnic persecution and forced flight from Myanmar has only worsened since 2017, is one of the great international humanitarian crises of present times.