In the hope of reuniting with their scattered family, four-year-old Shafi and his nine-year-old sister Somira leave a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh on a perilous journey to reach Malaysia.
Akio Fujimoto | France, Germany, Japan, Malaysia | 2025 | 99 mins.
Sun, Nov 1 | 2:30 PM | Hermann Gmeiner Hall
In the hope of reuniting with their scattered family, four-year-old Shafi and his nine-year-old sister Somira leave a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh on a perilous journey to reach Malaysia.
Akio Fujimoto
Akio Fujimoto is a Japanese filmmaker born in Osaka. He studied film at university and trained in fiction and documentary filmmaking, developing a body of work focused on social margins and migration across Asia. His short films include Psychedelic Family (2012) and Bleached Bones Avenue (2020), followed by the feature films Passages of Life (2017) and Along the Sea (2020).
Venice International Film Festival 2025 – Special Jury Prize (Orizzonti Section)
Tokyo International Film Festival 2025
