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BELONGING

By Abid Hossain KHAN

Documentary - Production 2020

6-year-old Nushaida starts a journey to find her parents, whom she lost while fleeing Myanmar, among refugee camps for Rohingyas in Bangladesh.

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- BANGLADESH
- Languages
- BENGALI
- Director(s)
- Abid Hossain KHAN
- Producer(s)
- Rubaiyat HOSSAIN (KHONA TALKIES), Aadnan Imtiaz AHMED (KHONA TALKIES)
- Synopsis
- Escaping the systemic violence against the Rohingya Muslim community in the Rakhine state of Myanmar, 6-year-old Nushaida crosses the border into Bangladesh with her parents, uncle, and grandparents. After reaching the makeshift camps, they realize that Nushaida’s father and pregnant mother never made it to the camps with them. Nushaida, with her uncle Foize, starts looking for her parents from one camp to another. Walking through crowds of suffering people crying out in pain, they witness the agony and the resilience of the displaced Rohingya people, fighting and gathering strength to rebuild their lives from a place of total destitution. When Nushaida and her family have almost given up hope, news arrives that her mother has given birth to a baby boy in another camp and that they are all safe. They reunite and pray that this union will bring peaceful stability that has eluded their family for so long. Then they find out that the Myanmar government has agreed on a pact with Bangladesh and is ready to take back some of the Rohingyas, but only under certain conditions. Their short spell of happiness is cut short; the family is again immersed in looming uncertainties.