THE EXHIBITION
In parallel of this documentary film, a multidisciplinary exhibition was created and presented at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec from January 2020 to February 2022. Presented in the old prison building of the MNBAQ, this multidisciplinary exhibition combines video projections, photographs, children's drawings, dioramas and sculptures, poems, testimonies and ambient sounds in order to immerse us in the world‘s largest refugee camp, the Kutupalong camp in Bangladesh. This exhibit won the 2020 Jury Coup de coeur prize from the Société des Musées du Québec.
THE ARTISTS & COLLABORATORS
Conceived and produced by MÖ FILMS (Mélanie Carrier and Olivier Higgins), this moving exhibition brings together the work of several highly talented artists and collaborators including documentary photographer Renaud Philippe, the designer Marie-Renée Bourget Harvey, the Rohingya poet Kala Miya, the Rohingya refugee Mohammed Shofi, the visual artists Karine Giboulo and Rosalie Gamache, the multimedia artist Louis-Robert Bouchard, the light sculptor Keven Dubois and all the museum team.
OTHER EXHIBITION RELATED
FINDING REFUGE - (Full information on www.mofilms.ca)
Finding Refuge offers a sensitive and deeply human immersion into the lived experiences of the Rohingya people. An immersive sound journey invites visitors to understand the life journey of a refugee through his own words and memories.
This story is that of Mohammed Shofi, who was forced to flee Myanmar with his family before the age of one. His journey—from childhood in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh to his arrival in Québec at the age of 18—is told with striking sensitivity. Authentic sounds—his voice, the ambient noises of the camp, and those of his present-day life—captured through the documentary approach of filmmakers Mélanie Carrier and Olivier Higgins, immerse visitors in a story that is both luminous and deeply moving, echoing the experiences of millions of people who have been forced to flee in search of refuge. The works of Karine Giboulo convey the intensity and density of life in the camps and the process of taking root in a new land, evoking Shofi’s memories.
This exhibition extends the documentary film Wandering: A Rohingya Story (Errance sans retour), directed by Olivier Higgins and Mélanie Carrier and internationally acclaimed. With Finding Refuge, the cinematic experience is transformed into an immersive museum installation, offering an intimate encounter with the story of a displaced people.
Finding Refuge was presented from March 2025 to January 2026 at the Musée de la civilisation in Québec City. This exhibition, inspired by the life of Mohammed Shofi (the narrator of the film Wandering: A Rohingya Story), was conceived and produced by MÖ FILMS and the artists Mélanie Carrier, Olivier Higgins, and Karine Giboulo, in collaboration with the Musée de la civilisation.