Autopsy of a Genocide a film by Sohel Rahman

Hello beautiful people, This is Sohel, an independent filmmaker from Bangladesh and Portugal.

As the world witnesses a horrific genocide, I have been filming with another community that survived another brutal genocide in Myanmar six years ago.

We cannot let this go! We must raise a courageous voice against all kinds of brutality, bloodshed and massacres.

After the film The Ice Cream Sellers, I am working on my new film project Autopsy of a Genocide. I need your support to continue working on this film. Your small contribution would mean a million to me. I would greatly appreciate it.

The film Autopsy of a Genocide tells the story of the post-genocide period of the Rohingya refugee community with a special focus on Zarina. After six years of the Rohingya genocide, Zarina, a 55-year-old Rohingya transgender, faces a multitude of challenges in the world's largest refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, as she struggles with her transgender identity and loneliness. Zarina is also about to make a life-changing decision whether she escapes or stays in the camp.

Long, long before the modern state of Myanmar was formed, the region now

called Rakhine State was the homeland of the Rohingya people's ancestors.

Yet a slow-burning genocide that flared up in 2017 as a textbook case of ethnic

cleansing has driven them into Bangladesh, where they have stagnated ever

since in a stateless limbo.

The unique stories of individual Rohingya are often overshadowed by the

narrative of their shared suffering. News is filtered so that similar stories are

endlessly repeated - brutal attacks, the harrowing flight, the challenges of life

in the world's largest refugee camp. These stories need to be told but they

leave little space for individualized experiences such as Zarina's. Layered

beneath Zarina's pain as a refugee is Zarina's pain as a transgender person

who suffers discrimination and ridicule even among her community of fellow

genocide survivors, and who suffer alone, without a life partner who will

accept her as she is.

My film will share the struggles, as well as the quiet moments of peace and

joy, of a community that is repeatedly persecuted. Additional unknown hardships

lie uneasily in their futures, as pressure toward repatriation increases even

though it remains unsafe.

I'm working on this film project mostly by myself without any funding or financial support. Your little support would help me to continue working on this project and complete the film.