Sohel Rahman is an award-winning filmmaker, writer and educator whose works spans over a decade across continents. Based in Lisbon, originally from Chattogram, Bangladesh, Sohel crafts powerful creative documentary films that illuminate critical social issues, with a focus on migration and refugees, human rights, and underrepresented communities.
His acclaimed film The Ice Cream Sellers (2021), which explores the Rohingya genocide through the eyes of child survivors, has won the top honours at international festivals including the South Asian Film Festival, Montreal, Canada and the Tasveer South Asian Film Festival, in Seattle, USA. His films have been screened at prestigious institutions such as Yale University, University of Chicago, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Australian National University, Durham University, UK, University of Sussex, UK, Boston University, New York University, University of Oregon, Ohio State University, Rutgers University, Hawaii University, University of Amsterdam, Vrije University, Amsterdam, Radboud University, Nijmegen, IISS, The Hague, Linkoping University, Sweden, and several museums and foundations, where he also collaborates as a researcher and filmmaker.
A recipient of the Erasmus Mundus scholarship, Sohel holds a European joint masters in Documentary Film Directing (DocNomads, Lisbon, Budapest, Brussels) and a master's degree in English Literature. He has taught filmmaking and conducted masterclasses at universities in the USA, UK, Europe and Asia. His notable films are "Songs From Another Eden", "A Passagem", "The Stranger", and upcoming projects are "Dancing with the Sea", and "Autopsy of a Genocide."