DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL - Lost and Found

Impressions:
A beautiful story of Kamal, a man who decided what the refugee camp needed was a lost and found for children. He's lovely probably 30 year old man with a great smile and warm heart. He tells his own story of having to flee Mynamar as a child of 12 because soldiers on the street had stopped him and beat him close to death. He left because he didn't want it to happen again and came to the refugee camp himself. I think eventually his parents came.

He works at this Lost and Found he created in the camp that somehow got U.N. backing and they gave him a microphone and a speaker system. I believe they said in the post interviews that he had reunited over 500 children with their parents. Children can be easily kidnapped if they are left alone on the streets.

There is an aerial shot of the camp of the 700,000 people camp. It is a little less than the population of San Francisco. It is a huge camp country of it's own. It is amazing to see the views of what it is like to live in this camp and how these people survive. It shows a view of refugee life that is never seen. That I didn't even know existed. The camp I believe they said was financed by the United Nations. The people were clothed but dirty. There food shipments coming into the camp that I saw but it doesn't really explain how so many people can live in these camps. What they do during the day and if they get any education. I don't think there is any electricity in the camp. It made me curious for more about life there. However, just getting to meet this incredible altruistic, happy man who helps life for everyone in the camp was satisfying.

The editor of the film was there to speak. There were over a hundred hours of film. At first she was going to make the story edit about the experience of one child being lost and then found. However there were so many cases that occurred when they did the filming that they decided to make the story arc around Kamal. I think this made a better story. I'll try to find a picture of his sweet face. The program works because of him. He is very kind and someone that a child could easily trust.

Here are some closer up pictures I found of the Refugee camp in Bangladesh

SFFILM Program Description:
Lost and Found
(Orlando von Einsiedel, UK 2019, 22 min)
The world’s largest refugee camp is temporary home to nearly 700,000 Rohingya forced to flee persecution by the Myanmar military. There, Kamal Hossain dedicates himself to helping children who have become separated from their families.

Description from another website:

Lost and Found

Directed by: Orlando von Einsiedel

Runtime: 21 minutes

Rohingya refugees fleeing ethnic cleansing from the brutal regime in Myanmar, has resulted in an exodus of more than 700,000 Rohingya from their homes into the largest resettlement camps in the world. Lost and Found, directed by Academy Award winner Orlando von Einsiedel (“The White Helmets”, “Virunga"), tells the uplifting story of Kamal Hussein, a Rohingya who has dedicated his life to taking children who get separated and lost from their parents in this sprawling camp and reuniting them.

https://www.originalthinkers.com/2019-films

DirectorOrlando von Einsiedel

Orlando von Einsiedel is the Oscar-winning director of the short documentary The White Helmets. His first feature documentary, the Bafta and Academy Award nominated documentary Virunga, won over 50 international film awards including an Emmy, a Peabody, a Grierson, and a DuPont-Columbia Award for outstanding journalism.

The editor came to speak
Katie Bryer, editor of Lost and Found.

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