‘Lost Land’
Director: Akio Fujimoto
Starring: Shomira Rias Uddin, Muhammad Shofik Rias Uddin
Billed as the “first-ever Rohingya-language feature … a haunting, intimate portrait of two siblings fleeing persecution in Myanmar,” the Japanese director’s third feature film follows nine-year-old Somira and four-year-old Shafi as they attempt to reach Malaysia, where their uncle lives. Won the Special Jury Prize at last year’s Venice International Film Festival. Fujimoto spent 12 years working in Myanmar, where any mention of the Rohingya is frowned on. “That silence became a burden to me and led me to this film,” he wrote in his director’s statement for Venice.
‘Sirat’
