An extremely rare glimpse into the Rohingya community, seen through a child’s eyes
Two Rohingya children, four-year-old Shafi and her nine-year-old sister Somira live in a refugee camp in Bangladesh. When their family disappears, they set out alone on a perilous journey to Malaysia. The film follows their journey, their encounters, and the obstacles they face, revealing the realities of exile and survival from a child’s perspective.
Never straying from its child’s-eye perspective, Lost Land narrates with astonishing scope a journey marked by waiting, fear, and tiny gestures, where imagination becomes a refuge from the hostility of the world.
« Le deuxième long-métrage du Japonais Akio Fujimoto est un film très fort sur deux enfants rohingyas déplacés qui tentent de fuir le Bangladesh pour rallier la Malaisie. »
David Katz Cineuropa 03/09/2025
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Golden Yusr for Best Film, Red Sea International Film Festival, 2025, sa
Akio Fujimoto
Akio Fujimoto is a Japanese director born in Osaka. He studied film at university and training in fiction and documentary filmmaking, developing a cinema focusing on social margins and migratory trajectories in Asia. After the short films Psychedelic Family (2012) and Bleached Bones Avenue (2020), he directed the features Passages of Life (2017) and Along the Sea (2020). Lost Land won the Orizzonti Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 2025.
