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Film Screening “A Rohingya Ramadan – Inside the World’s Largest Refugee Camp”
April 21 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
The film “A Rohingya Ramadan” offers a rare and intimate view of life inside the world’s largest refugee camp, seen through the eyes of several of its residents. More than a million Rohingya refugees, stuck in open-air confinement, surviving on minimal aid, still fasting, praying, carrying on. A student prepares for her IELTS test to win a university scholarship, a widowed newcomer navigates aid distribution, a stall keeper sells betel leaf to feed his family, and a young rapper writes music about camp conditions.
Made in Cox’s Bazar during Ramadan 2025, this documentary is the result of a collaboration between director Jidi Guo and Director of Photography Ro Yassin Abdumonab and Producer Sohel Khan, both Rohingya human rights activists whom reside in the camp. They spent a month filming inside the Cox’s Bazaar refugee camps, located in Bangladesh.
For all the research reports, fundraising campaigns, and officials announcing new high watermarks in the crisis, daily life in the camps remains largely unseen. The movie captures the texture of daily life during the Islamic holy month and was commissioned by Al Jazeera Documentary.
The screening will take place at SEA Junction, room 407-8, 4th Floor, BACC. The film is 52 minutes long, it will be in Rohingya and English, with English subtitles. The Producer-Director of the film, Jidi Guo and Human Mobility, Health, & Human Rights researcher Haley Ritsema, who spent over 3 years working on Rohingya issues in Cox’s Bazar will be present for the Q&A session. The Q&A session will be in English.
Film Information
Producer-Director: Jidi Guo
Producer: Sohel Khan
Director of Photography: Yassin Abdumonab
Post-Producer & Script Editor: Aung Khant Si Thu
Editor & Colorist: Kaung Wai Yan
Commissioned by: Al Jazeera Documentary
Speaker Bios
Jidi Guo is a documentary filmmaker, occasional writer, and founder of production company One More Question. Her work has taken her to far corners of the word, from the barren borderlands between China and Russia, to the slums of Mathare, Kenya, and Colombia’s Coffee Triangle. She has created documentaries for Al Jazeera, CNA, Discovery and VICE. Her new film “A Rohingya Ramadan” is an intimate verité shot over a month inside the world’s largest refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Jidi is part of the Warner Bros. Discovery Access Unscripted Cohort of 2024 and her series “Shifting Horizons” holds a National Award for Best News Programme from the Asian Academy Creative Awards 2025. Born in China, raised in the Netherlands, she is currently based in Thailand.
Haley Ritsema is an independent researcher and analyst focused on human rights, democracy, and non-state governance. Since 2021 she has been closely engaged on these issues with Rohingya living in exile in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, where she also lived for two years. She has formerly worked with organizations such as IOM and Save the Children. From the United States, Haley is now based in Thailand.
For more information, please email: info@seajunction.org or phone/wa: +66970024140
NB: The event is free, donations are welcome to support SEA Junction activities.
Organizers
SEA Junction, established under the Thai non-profit organization Foundation for Southeast Asia Studies (ForSEA), aims to foster understanding and appreciation of Southeast Asia in all its socio-cultural dimensions, from arts and lifestyles to economy and development. Conveniently located at Room 407-8 of the Bangkok Arts and Culture Center or BACC (across MBK, BTS National Stadium), SEA Junction facilitates public access to knowledge resources and exchanges among students, practitioners and Southeast Asia lovers. More information at http://seajunction.org/.
One More Question is a production company founded by Jidi Guo, giving platform to stories and people often left out from mainstream narratives and inspiring everyone to ask one more question. What’s overlooked often matters most.
