
WANDERING, A ROHINGYA STORY
Mélanie Carrier and Oliver Higgins, Human Rights Doc, 88' - Canadian Screen Award
2020
CANADA, BANGLADESH
Doc
88 m
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
Winner Best Documentary - Canadian Screen Awards
Nominated for Best Cinematography - Canadian Screen Awards
Winner Best Documentary - Iris Award
Winner Best Editing / Documentary - Iris Award
Winner Best Photography / Documentary - Iris Award
Nominated for Best Sound / Documentary - Iris Award
Nominated for Best Music / Documentary - Iris Award
Nominated SOS Kinderdörfer Weltweit Award - Dok.Fest München / Germany
Grand Prize - Breaking boundaries - Rhode Island International Film Festival / USA
Grand Prize Winner - Vues sur Mer / Canada
Special Jury Prize - International Festival of Red Cross and Health Films / Bulgaria
Professional Jury's Prize Documentary Feature Film 2nd - Chicago International Children's Film Festival / USA
Milos Stehlik Global Impact Award - Chicago International Children's Film Festival / USA
2020
Winner of the Global DOCS Award - DOCSMX / Mexico
Winner of the Audience Award - FCVQ / Canada
Winner of the Wave Award - Best Documentary - FICFA / Canada
Winner FIDBA Buenos Aires - Human Rights Award
FESTIVALS
SEMINCI / Valladolid, Spain - Official Competition
DOCSMX / Mexico City, Mexico - Winner of the Global DOCS Award
RIDM / Montreal, Canada - Official Competition
FCVQ / Quebec City, Canada - Winner of the Audience Award
FICFA / Moncton, Canada - Winner of the Wave Award - Best Documentary
42nd Havana film festival / Cuba - Official Selection
FIFF Tübingen / Germany - Official Competition
27th Rendez-vous French Film Festival / Vancouver, Canada - Closing Film
10th Belleville Downtown DocFest / Belleville, Canada - Official Selection
Carrousel International du Film de Rimouski / Rimouski, Canada - Official Selection
Vues sur Mer / Gaspé, Canada - Opening Film & Grand Prize Winner
39th Festival Cinéma d'Alès - Itinérances / Alès, France - Official Selection
Dok.Fest München / Munich, Germany - Best of Fest Selection
39th edition of Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma / Quebec, Canada
Festival Cinéma du Monde de Sherbrooke / Quebec, Canada
Moscow International Film Festival - DOKER / Russia - Official Competition
Social World Film Festival / Naples, Italy
Flikers' Rhode Island International Film Festival / USA - Official Competition
International Festival of Red Cross and Health Films / Bulgaria
Berlin Human Rights Festival / Germany - Official Competition
Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival / Taiwan
Heartland International Film festival / Indianapolis, USA - Official competition
Ojai Film Festival, USA - Official competition
Festival des Libertés / Brussels, Belgium - Official competition
Festival International Ânûû-rû Âboro / New Caledonia - Official competition
Chicago International Children's Film Festival / USA - Official competition
45th Mostra São Paulo International film festival / Brazil, Official competition
FIDBA - Buenos Aires International Film Festival / Argentina - Official competition
Festival du film documentaire Le Grand Bivouac / France - Official competition
FilmAmbiente / São Paulo, Brazil - Official competition
UNHCR Refugee Film Festival / Japan
Verzió International Film Festival / Budapest, Hungary - Official competition
Social Justice Film Festival / Seattle, USA - Official competition
Rabat International Auteur Film Festival / Morocco
12th Human Rights Documentary Film Days - Izmir Turqey
Escales Documentaires de La Rochelle - France - Official competition
Bushwick Film Festival - Brooklyn, NY, USA
Utopia Film Festival - Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
MOVE IT! Film Festival for Human Rights and Development - Germany - Official competition
North Dakota Human Rights Film Festival, Fargo, USA
Festival International du Film Politique de Carcassone / France - Official competition
Cinema On The Bayou / USA - Official competition
OTHER SCREENINGS
CANADA
Cinéma Beaubien - February 2021
Cinéma du Parc - February 2021
Cinéma du Musée - February 2021
Cinéma Moderne - February 2021
Cinéma Le Clap - February 2021
Cinémathèque Québécoise - March 2021
Cinéma Princesse - Rivière-du-Loup - March 1st
Paraloeil - Rimouski - March 4
Ciné-Centre Baie-Comeau - March 23 & 27
Ciné-Centre Sept-Îles - March 22, 23, 24 & 28
Bibliothèque de Victoriaville - Hors cadre series - March 30
Ciné-répertoire de Joliette (Cinéma RGFM) - May 18
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"