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Edmund Yeo’s We the Dead: Rohingya and the Fantasy of the Afterlife

June 28, 2020 5 min read

A reflection on Edmund Yeo’s We the Dead, exploring Rohingya refugees, life after death, and the film’s haunting realism rooted in contemporary history.