Lost Land
Singapore Premiere
Akio Fujimoto Japan, France, Malaysia, Germany 2025 99 min PG (Some Violence)
Two siblings must traverse perilous waters to leave their Rohingya camp in Bangladesh and reunite with their family in Malaysia.
Somira and her brother Shafi always seem to find time to play games, even when fleeing by boat from Bangladesh. The sudden arrival of coastguards scatters the Rohingya refugees, stranding them in southern Thailand. The children are soon plunged into a real-life hide-and-seek game as they hunt for food, shelter and safety. When other refugees take them in, their way to Malaysia seems assured, only for the odds to turn against them.
Starring over 200 Rohingya people, Lost Land is a visceral depiction of their collective experience. The first feature made entirely in the Rohingya language, it is shot at the eye-level of its young actors, capturing the trauma of displacement and the silence that allows its perpetuation.
Synopsis Writer: Sasha Han
29 Nov, Sat 9:30PM / 99 min
Golden Village Suntec, Hall 3
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Lost Land
Harà Watan
Akio Fujimoto
Japan, France, Malaysia, Germany
2025
Rohingya
99 min
PG (Some Violence)
Singapore Premiere
Akio Fujimoto
Akio Fujimoto is a Japanese director who has worked on co-productions between Japan and Southeast Asia for over 12 years. He is best known for Passage of Life (2018), a Japan-Myanmar co-production, and Along the Sea (2021), about illegal Vietnamese migrants in Japan. Lost Land won the Special Orizzonti Jury Prize at Venice.
Shomira Rias Uddin,
Muhammad Shofik Rias Uddin
Kazutaka Watanabe,
Mizue Kunizane,
Shogo Yasukawa,
Angèle de Lorme,
Sujauddin Karimuddin,
Elise Shick,
Christian Jilka
