Uprooted

Written By Alex Szalat

11 min｜2022｜France

  • Director: Olga Prud’homme Farges

  • Producers: Sophie Faudel (Mélisande Films)

  • Festivals, Prizes: Doc of the Year click, Fescilmar (Vénézuéla et Colombie), selected at San Francisco Frozen film fest, Trani Film Fest (Italie), Andaras Film fest (Italie), Erronka Munduan (Espagne), Festifis (Bénin)

  • Thematics: Rohingya minority, War crimes, Rape as war weapon, Myamar, Retention camp

In September 2017, the Rohingya minority in Myanmar became a victim of ethnic cleansing. Olga Prudhomme-Farge set out to the Kutupalong camps in southern Bangladesh, then home to a million displaced people, to collect the stories of female and children Rohingya refugees. Many of them had been victims of sexual violence due to the systematic use of rape as a weapon of war by the Burmese military and Buddhist militias. 

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