SYNOPSIS
Within a few months, the Kutupalong refugee camp has become the biggest in the world. Out of sight, 700,000 people of the Rohingya Muslim minority fled Myanmar (formerly Burma) in 2017 to escape genocide and seek asylum in Bangladesh. Prisoners of a major yet little-publicized humanitarian crisis, Kalam, Mohammad, Montas and other exiles want to make their voice heard. Between poetry and nightmares, food distribution and soccer games, they testify to their daily realities and the ghosts of their past memories. Around them, the spectre of wandering, waiting, disappearing. In this place, almost out of space and time, is it still possible to exist?
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DIRECTOR
Mélanie Carrier
SEE COMPLETE PROFILEOlivier 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”.
Olivier Higgins
SEE COMPLETE PROFILEOlivier 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”.
CREDITS
CAREER
2020
SEMINCI / Valladolid, Spain - Official competition
DOCSMX / Mexico, Mexico - Winner Global Docs Award
RIDM / Montréal, Canada - Official competition
FCVQ / Québec, Canada - Winner People's choice Award
FICFA / Moncton, Canada - Winner Best featured documentary
42nd International Festival of New Latin American Cinema / Cuba - Official selection
FIFF de Tübingen / Tübingen, Germany - Official competition
2021 - 2022
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 & Winner Best Documentary
39th Festival Cinéma d'Alès - Itinérances / Alès, France - Official selection
Dok.Fest München / Munich, Germany - Best of Fest selection
39th edition of Les 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, Italia
Flikers' Rhode Island International Film Festival / USA - Official competition
International Festival of Red Cross and Health Films / Bulgaria
Human Rights Film Festival Berlin / 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, Hongrie - Official competition
Social Justice Film Festival / Seattle, USA - Official competition
Festival International de Cinéma d’Auteur de Rabat / Maroc
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
Quebec International Ethnographic Film Festival / Canada
Auroville Film Festival / India
Milwaukee Muslim Film Festival / USA?
DOC Cévennes / France
?Tulum World Environment Film Festival / Mexico
2022 - 2023
Freiburger Filmforum - Festival of Transcultural Cinema / Germany
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