This review contains minor spoilers for the documentary Nightcrawlers. Making a documentary about addiction or mental illness without being exploitative of the subject can be a tall order. By and large, Stephen McCoy’s Nightcrawlers manages to pull it off. While that may be because McCoy quickly becomes the subject of his own documentary, it’s worth […]
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- 11/29/2019
- by Amelia Emberwing
- Slash Film
In Orlando von Einsiedel’s new documentary short Lost and Found a young girl named Dokana, separated from her family, waits patiently in hopes her mother will soon appear. As the hours pass the only sign of her mounting anxiety is the tears that brim in her luminous eyes.
Dokana is one of tens of thousands of children living in the world’s largest refugee camp, located in Bangladesh across the border from Myanmar. The camp is a makeshift home to the Rohingya minority who have been chased from their native Myanmar in a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing.
“In Myanmar, entire villages were burned to the ground, families were separated and killed, and women and girls were gang raped,” according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. “Most of the people who escaped were severely traumatized after witnessing unspeakable atrocities.”
Despite the enormity of the refugee crisis,...
Dokana is one of tens of thousands of children living in the world’s largest refugee camp, located in Bangladesh across the border from Myanmar. The camp is a makeshift home to the Rohingya minority who have been chased from their native Myanmar in a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing.
“In Myanmar, entire villages were burned to the ground, families were separated and killed, and women and girls were gang raped,” according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. “Most of the people who escaped were severely traumatized after witnessing unspeakable atrocities.”
Despite the enormity of the refugee crisis,...
- 11/22/2019
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
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