WANDERING, A ROHINGYA STORY

SYNOPSIS

In a few months, Kutupalong refugee camp has become the largest in the world. A labyrinth of makeshift shelters, home to 700 000 Rohingyas. In this place out of space and time, is it still possible to exist?

FESTIVALS

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

2021

1. Winner Best Documentary - Canadian Screen Awards

2. Nominated for Best Cinematography - Canadian Screen Awards

3. Winner Best Documentary - Iris Award

4. Winner Best Editing / Documentary - Iris Award

5. Winner Best Photography / Documentary - Iris Award

6. Nominated for Best Sound / Documentary - Iris Award

7. Nominated for Best Music / Documentary - Iris Award

8. Nominated SOS Kinderdörfer Weltweit Award - Dok.Fest München / Germany 

9. Grand Prize - Breaking boundaries - Rhode Island International Film Festival / USA

10. Grand Prize Winner - Vues sur Mer / Canada

11. Special Jury Prize - International Festival of Red Cross and Health Films / Bulgaria

12. Professional Jury's Prize Documentary Feature Film 2nd - Chicago International Children's Film Festival / USA  

13. Milos Stehlik Global Impact Award - Chicago International Children's Film Festival / USA

14. 2020

15. Winner of the Global DOCS Award - DOCSMX / Mexico

16. Winner of the Audience Award - FCVQ / Canada

17. Winner of the Wave Award - Best Documentary - FICFA / Canada

18. Winner FIDBA Buenos Aires - Human Rights Award

FESTIVALS

1. SEMINCI / Valladolid, Spain - Official Competition

2. DOCSMX / Mexico City, Mexico - Winner of the Global DOCS Award

3. RIDM / Montreal, Canada - Official Competition

4. FCVQ / Quebec City, Canada - Winner of the Audience Award

5. FICFA / Moncton, Canada - Winner of the Wave Award - Best Documentary

6. 42nd Havana film festival / Cuba - Official Selection

7. FIFF Tübingen / Germany - Official Competition     

8. 27th Rendez-vous French Film Festival / Vancouver, Canada - Closing Film 

9. 10th Belleville Downtown DocFest / Belleville, Canada - Official Selection

10. Carrousel International du Film de Rimouski / Rimouski, Canada - Official Selection

11. Vues sur Mer / Gaspé, Canada - Opening Film & Grand Prize Winner

12. 39th Festival Cinéma d'Alès - Itinérances / Alès, France - Official Selection

13. Dok.Fest München / Munich, Germany - Best of Fest Selection

14. 39th edition of Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma / Quebec, Canada

15. Festival Cinéma du Monde de Sherbrooke / Quebec, Canada

16. Moscow International Film Festival - DOKER / Russia - Official Competition

17. Social World Film Festival / Naples, Italy

18. Flikers' Rhode Island International Film Festival / USA - Official Competition

19. International Festival of Red Cross and Health Films / Bulgaria

20. Berlin Human Rights Festival / Germany - Official Competition

21. Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival / Taiwan

22. Heartland International Film festival / Indianapolis, USA - Official competition

23. Ojai Film Festival, USA - Official competition

24. Festival des Libertés / Brussels, Belgium - Official competition

25. Festival International Ânûû-rû Âboro / New Caledonia - Official competition

26. Chicago International Children's Film Festival / USA - Official competition

27. 45th Mostra São Paulo International film festival / Brazil, Official competition

28. FIDBA - Buenos Aires International Film Festival / Argentina - Official competition

29. Festival du film documentaire Le Grand Bivouac / France - Official competition

30. FilmAmbiente / São Paulo, Brazil - Official competition

31. UNHCR Refugee Film Festival / Japan

32. Verzió International Film Festival / Budapest, Hungary - Official competition

33. Social Justice Film Festival / Seattle, USA - Official competition

34. Rabat International Auteur Film Festival / Morocco

35. 12th Human Rights Documentary Film Days - Izmir Turqey

36. Escales Documentaires de La Rochelle - France - Official competition

37. Bushwick Film Festival - Brooklyn, NY, USA

38. Utopia Film Festival - Greenbelt, Maryland, USA

39. MOVE IT! Film Festival for Human Rights and Development - Germany - Official competition

40. North Dakota Human Rights Film Festival, Fargo, USA

41. Festival International du Film Politique de Carcassone / France - Official competition

42. Cinema On The Bayou / USA - Official competition

OTHER SCREENINGS

CANADA

1. Cinéma Beaubien - February 2021

2. Cinéma du Parc - February 2021

3. Cinéma du Musée - February 2021

4. Cinéma Moderne - February 2021

5. Cinéma Le Clap - February 2021

6. Cinémathèque Québécoise - March 2021

7. Cinéma Princesse - Rivière-du-Loup - March 1st     

8. Paraloeil - Rimouski - March 4   

9. Ciné-Centre Baie-Comeau - March 23 & 27

10. Ciné-Centre Sept-Îles - March 22, 23, 24 & 28

11. Bibliothèque de Victoriaville - Hors cadre series - March 30

12. Ciné-répertoire de Joliette (Cinéma RGFM) - May 18

13. Cinéma Le Clap - June 18 to 25 

SPAIN 

BARCELONA - In theaters June 4, 2021

QUOTES:

"All the photography of the film is extraordinary."
"Not only is the film free of pathos, not only does it avoid the pitfalls of resting on poverty, on the contrary, but it is also permeated with a certain poetry, a metaphysical atmosphere"

LA PRESSE- ANDRÉ DUCHESNE

★★★★

"Poignant immersion"

JOURNAL DE QUÉBEC - CÉDRIC BÉLANGER

★★★ ½

"Courageous, relevant and deeply human"

JOURNAL LE SOLEIL -ÉRIC MOREAULT

"Sublime documentary"

LE DEVOIR -ODILE DUMAIS

« Wonderful film »
"A work as sensitive as it is immersive"

LE DEVOIR -FRANÇOIS LÉVESQUE

"A powerful illustration of the tragic consequences of genocide"
"A visually striking work"

MEDIAFILM - CHARLES-HENRI RAMOND

" Wandering, a Rohingya Story stands out from a crowded pack   (a film about refugees), however, by striking tricky balances between individual and collective focus, and between presenting an aesthetic vision of its subject matter rather than an aestheticized one. "

MODERN TIMES REVIEW - NEIL YONG

"Remarkable documentary"

"Realistic yet sensitive and moving"

DIARIO EL POPULAR - JORGE GUTMAN

"The film unfolds with a mature direction that manages to convey the heavy burden of a clumsy humanity in the order of its priorities."

EL NORTE DE CASTILLA

"The film is filled with moments of great evocative power; these images mark the memory, they live and accompany the spectators for a long time. (...) Viewing Wandering, Rohingya Story is a truly sensory experience for the public, which plunges into a world of emotions and sensations."

CINÉ-BULLES

"a high level of narrative language (...) Apart from the carefully prepared cinematography and editing, the aesthetic structure of the film necessarily hypnotizes and fascinates the audience."

BIAMAG

"Armed with contagious humanism (...) the sensually evocative photographic and sound work carried out by the production is also a vibrant testimony to the state of the situation"

PANORAMA CINEMA

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