Entertainment Report :
Bangladeshi filmmaker Sohel Rahman’s film The Ice Cream Sellers will be screened at the 16th Tasveer South Asian Film Festival, according to a press release. A total of 87 films from different countries of South Asia have been selected for the festival to be held in Seattle from October 1
to 24. In addition, The Ice Cream Sellers
has been selected for the Golden Tree International Documentary Film Festival in Frankfurt, Germany, the Multicultural Film Festival in Toronto, Canada, the South Asian Film Festival in Montreal, Canada and the Festival Internacional
De Cine/El Cine Suma Paz in Bogota, Colombia. The Ice Cream Sellers tells the story of two siblings and the people of the Rohingya community who fled from Myanmar into Bangladesh after a brutal genocide. While most of the Rohingya
people were exhausted from the weight
of their trauma, the two siblings began their new life with hard work, selling ice-creams in the world´s largest refugee camp in a desperate attempt to earn enough money for the release of their father from prison in Myanmar. Apart from direction, Sohel is behind the screenplay, camera work, editing, and sound design of the film. He shot around the camp with
a hand-held camera, without a
conventional film crew.
