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Wandering, a Rohingya Story

Olivier Higgins et Mélanie Carrier / 2020 / 87 min. / Canada / Rohingya / SUBS FRENCH, ENGLISH, Spanish

Synopsis

The documentary film Wandering, a Rohingya Story is an immersive, poetic and powerful look into the biggest refugee camp in the world, the Kutupalong refugee camp. In 2017, within a few months, 700,000 people of the Rohingya Muslim minority fled Myanmar (formerly Burma) to escape genocide and seek asylum in Bangladesh. Between poetry and nightmares, food distribution and soccer games, the Rohingyas of Kutupalong camp bear witness to their daily lives and to the ghosts of the past.

Special collaborations :
In collaboration with Rohingya refugees Kala Miya and Mohammed Shofi.
Inspired by the work and research by documentary photographer Renaud Philippe.

Cast & Crew

Screenplay : Olivier Higgins et Mélanie Carrier
Voice Over : Mohammed Shofi
Writing of the narration : Kala Miya (Kalam), Olivier Higgins et Mélanie Carrier
Cinematographer : Renaud Philippe et Olivier Higgins
Editor : Amélie Labrèche et Olivier Higgins
Colorization : Jérome Cloutier
Sound editor : Pierre-Jules Audet
Music : Martin Dumais
Cast : Kala Miya (Kalem), Mohammed Haras et sa famille, Montas

Genre

Documentaire

Topics

Discrimination and human rights, Migration and diasporas, Politics, Refugees

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Biography

Olivier Higgins and Mélanie Carrier are the directors and producers of Asiemut (2007), Encounters (2011) and Québékoisie (2014). Their films have been shown on international broadcasters including ARTE, RTBF, TSR, TV5 MONDE and AL JAZEERA. Their documentary Asiemut won several Grand Prizes in many of the most prestigious mountain film festivals around the world, such as Banff, Graz, Les Diablerets and Cervino. Québékoisie was awarded at the RIDM and RIFF. The two directors received funding from major organizations like Telefilm, SODEC, the National Film Board of Canada and Canada Council for the Arts. In 2020, Higgins and Carrier completed the conception of a multidisciplinary exhibition at the National Museum of the Art of Quebec, inspired by their latest feature documentary Wandering, a Rohingya Story.

Filmography

2007

Québékoisie / 81 min.
2011

Rencontre / 52 min.
2014

Asiemut / 56 min.

Festivals

- 2022 -
In competition | Festival International du film politique, France
In competition | Auroville Film Festival, India
In competition | Cinema on the Bayou, USA
In competition | Festival international du cinéma d'auteur de Rabat, Morocco
In competition | Tulum World Environment Film Festival, Mexico
In competition | Stockholm Independent Film Festival, Sweden
In competition | Festival international de films ethnographiques du Québec, Canada
In competition | DOC-Cévennes, France
In competition | Auroville Film Festival, Inde
In competition | Cultures and Communities Festival, États-Unis
In competition | Festifilm de la Beauce, Canada
In competition | Seoul Human Rights Film Festival, Corée du Sud
In competition | Festival international du cinéma des peuples « Ânûû-rû Âboro », Nouvelle-Calédonie
In competition | Globale Mittelhessen, Allemagne

- 2021 -
In competition | Belleville Downtown DocFest, Canada
In competition | Carrousel international du film de Rimouski, Canada
In competition | Vues sur mer, Canada
In competition | Rendez-Vous Québec Cinéma, Canada
In competition | DOK.fest München, Germany
In competition | Festival cinéma du monde de Sherbrooke, Canada
In competition | Festival Cinéma d'Alès - Itinérances, France
In competition | Moscow International Documentary Film Festival DOKer, Russia
In competition | Social World Film Festival, Italy
In competition | Cinéma sous les étoiles, Canada
Grand Prize - Breaking Boundaries | Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival, USA
Prix Spécial du Jury | International Festival of Red Cross and Health Films, Bulgaria
In competition | Human Rights Film Festival of Berlin, Germany
In competition | Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival, Taiwan
In competition | En présentation | UNHCR Refugee Film Festival, Japan
In competition | Social Justice Film Festival, USA
In competition | Heartland International Film Festival, USA
In competition | Le Grand Bivouac, France
In competition | Bushwick Film Festival, USA
In competition | Festival des Libertés, Belgium
In competition | Sao Paulo International Film Festival, Brazil
In competition | Filmambiente International Festival of Environmental Films, Brazil
In competition | North Dakota Human Rights Film Festival, USA
In competition | MOVE IT! Film Festival for Human Rights and Development, Germany
In competition | Ojai Film Festival, USA
Professional Jury’s Prize – Documentary Feature Film 2nd & MILOS STEHLIK GLOBAL IMPACT AWARD | Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, États-Unis
In competition | Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Hungary
In competition | Escales Documentaires, France
In competition | Utopia Film Festival, USA
In competition | International Documentary Film of Buenos Aires, Argentina
In competition | Human Rights Documentary Film, Turkey

- 2020 -
People's choice award - Feature film | Festival de cinéma de la ville de Québec - FCVQ, Canada
Winner of the competitive section GLOBAL DOCS | DocsMX, Mexico
Best feature documentary | Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie, Canada
In competition | Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal, Canada
In competition | Seminci – Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid, Spain
In competition | Festival International du Film Francophone de Tübingen, Germany
In competition | Havana Film Festival of New Latin American Cinema, Cuba

Awards

- 2021 -
Ted Rogers Best Feature Length Documentary | Canadian Screen Awards 2021, Canada
Prix Iris du Meilleur film documentaire | Gala Québec Cinéma, Canada
Prix Iris de la Meilleure direction de la photographie - Film documentaire | Gala Québec Cinéma, Canada
Prix Iris du Meilleur montage - Films documentaire | Gala Québec Cinéma, Canada
Grand Prize - Breaking Boundaries | Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival, USA
Prix Spécial du Jury | 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 -
People's choice award - Feature film | Festival de cinéma de la ville de Québec - FCVQ, Canada
Winner of the competitive section GLOBAL DOCS | DocsMX, Mexico
Best feature documentary | Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie, Canada

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