Lost Land
Nine-year-old Somira and her four-year-old little brother Shafi set out from a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh hoping to find their way to Malaysia, where their uncle has settled. What begins as a journey by boat soon becomes something far scarier when the children are separated from the group and left to navigate unfamiliar terrain, with only each other to rely on. Director Akio Fujimoto keeps close to the children's perspective, allowing moments of play, confusion and tenderness to sit alongside the fear and uncertainty of displacement. Made with a largely non-professional cast of over 200 Rohingya participants, Lost Land is a visceral, humane story of survival and the search for somewhere to call home.
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Akio Fujimoto is a Japanese filmmaker known for his intimate, socially
engaged cinema. His debut feature, PASSAGE OF LIFE (2017), received international acclaim, winning the Best Feature and the Spirit of Asia Best Director awards of the Asian Future section at the Tokyo International Film Festival. He continued exploring migration and identity in ALONG THE SEA (2020), presented at the San Sebastián Film Festival. Drawing on personal and cultural experiences, his work blends fiction and documentary with a restrained, humanistic approach, often focusing on the lives of those at the margins.
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