The Rohingya refugee crisis has been one of the most staggering displacement of people in history. As hundreds of thousands of people found themselves driven out of their country, or meet a torturous, horrifying fate if they stayed, countless lives were uprooted and scattered to the wind in a cruel, horrifying, haphazard manner. The short docu endeavors to explore the many tribulations of these lives, now having found shelter in a refugee camp in Bangladesh. <br><br> 

Through the eyes of a doctor, Babar Ali, who works in the camp, the narrative introduces the viewer to it all. From smiling children, to ill elderly to distraught men and women who articulate their unbridled misery to the camera, it attempts to engage with them all. The final result, thus, does its bit to further and spread the conversation on a very pressing, dire issue of contemporary times. 

Rohingya | Short Film Nominee

Julley is based on conversations with Babar Ali, a cross-country traveler and a doctor from Bangladesh, about his philosophy, adventures in the Himalayas and choice of an unconventional life. It was
the stories of Samresh Majumdar that inspired Ali to come to Kolkata, to the streets he found so familiar, but had only seen and experienced on the pages of a book so far. <br><br> It was those stories that first
developed a longing for the Himalayas, a longing which he says still persists. “I like the mountains
because they make me feel small,” says the mountaineer who works as a doctor in a Rohingya refugee
camp. Ali lives his lives by his own rules, with his desire for a freedom which he believes is impossible in the
plains. The film celebrates this free spirit of the life of this doctor-cum-mountaineer.

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