Wandering: A Rohingya Story
Wandering: A Rohingya Story (French: Errance sans retour, lit. "Wandering Without Return") is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Mélanie Carrier and Olivier Higgins and released in 2020.[1] The film is a portrait of the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh, which houses a large number of refugees from the Rohingya conflict in Myanmar.[2]
Wandering: A Rohingya Story | |
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French | Errance sans retour |
Directed by | Mélanie Carrier Olivier Higgins |
Written by | Mélanie Carrier Olivier Higgins Kala Miya |
Produced by | Mélanie Carrier Olivier Higgins |
Narrated by | Mohammed Shofi |
Cinematography | Renaud Philippe |
Edited by | Olivier Higgins Amélie Labrèche |
Music by | Martin Dumais |
Production company | MÖ Films |
Distributed by | Spira |
Release date |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Language | French |
Portions of the film were screened in January 2020 as part of Errance sans retour, a multimedia exhibition on the Rohingya crisis at Quebec City's Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec in early 2020, alongside photography by Renaud Philippe.[3] The full film had its premiere at the Quebec City Film Festival on September 19, 2020.[4]
Awards
The film won the Public Prize at FCVQ,[5] and the award for Best Documentary at the Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie.[6]
The Musée des beaux-arts exhibition was named the winner of the Société des musées du Québec's Prix Télé-Québec - Coup de coeur du jury award for museum shows.[7]
The film won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021,[8] and was nominated for Best Cinematography in a Documentary (Philippe, Higgins).[9] It also received five Prix Iris nominations at the 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards, for Best Documentary, Best Cinematography in a Documentary (Philippe, Higgins), Best Editing in a Documentary (Higgins, Amélie Labrèche), Best Original Music in a Documentary (Martin Dumais) and Best Sound in a Documentary (Higgins, Pierre-Jules Audet, Luc Boudrias, Kala Miya).[10]
References
- Valérie Cloutier, "Errance sans retour ou la réalité de réfugiés rohingyas". Ici Radio-Canada Québec, September 8, 2020.
- Sylvie Mousseau, "FICFA: dans les profondeurs d'un camp de réfugiés". L'Acadie Nouvelle, November 16, 2020.
- Éric Clément, "Errance sans retour, une expo qui vient du cœur". La Presse, January 22, 2020.
- Jonathan Lavoie, "Des films en salle au Festival de cinéma de Québec". Ici Radio-Canada, December 10, 2020.
- "« ERRANCE SANS RETOUR » de Mélanie Carrier et Olivier Higgins sacré Prix du public au FCVQ et sélectionné dans trois festivals internationaux". CTVM.info, October 7, 2020.
- Pascale Savoie-Brideau, "Un bilan positif pour le 34e Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie". Ici Radio-Canada Nouveau-Brunswick, November 21, 2020.
- "MNBAQ : L’expo « Errance sans retour » primé par la Société des musées du Québec". Lien Multimédia, November 4, 2020.
- Naman Ramachandran, "‘Schitt’s Creek,’ ‘Blood Quantum’ Triumph at Canadian Screen Awards". Variety, May 21, 2021.
- Brent Furdyk (March 30, 2021). "Canadian Screen Awards Announces 2021 Film Nominations". ET Canada. Archived from the original on March 30, 2021.
- Jean-François Vandeuren, "La déesse des mouches à feu part en tête des nominations du Gala Québec Cinéma 2021". Showbizz.net, April 26, 2021.