JEDDAH: Some stories demand to be told. Not just as narratives, but as acts of witness.
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Japanese filmmaker Akio Fujimoto’s “Lost Land” is one such story. Billed as the first feature film in the Rohingya language, the movie took home the top prize — the Golden Yusr — at this year’s Red Sea International Film Festival.
“Lost Land” — which premiered in the Horizons section at this year’s Venice Film Festival, where it won the special jury prize — follows two young Rohingya siblings, Somira and Shafi, fleeing persecution in Myanmar as they undertake a perilous journey d to join their uncle in Malaysia.
Shomira Rias Uddin (R) and Muhammad Shofik Rias Uddin in 'Lost Land.' (Supplied)
