Lost Land
2026·Drama·1h 39m
7.1
★
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.
Directed by Akio Fujimoto
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Crew
Akio Fujimoto
Director
Akio Fujimoto
Writer
Ernst Reijseger
Original Music Composer
Yoshio Kitagawa
Director of Photography
Kazutaka Watanabe
Producer
Ben Lau Puong Yuong
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Popular Reviews
17 reviews
Suse CPRO
10.0★ · 06/05/26
Sometimes a film is not really defined by its plot or characters or images but the places your mind goes when you are given space and time to think about the journey being shown to you. There’s no particular extra weight given to the deeply harrowing aspects of the journey compared to the more mundane. You’re just being told this is how it is and you have no choice but to face it.
Today my mind, as well as thinking about the Rohingya people, was stuck on the increasing popularity of the One Nation party in Australia. Something I find overwhelmingly baffling. It has always seemed clear to me that being rich in money and things and security has largely come down to luck. To deny these things to someone based on the fact that they just happened to be born somewhere else has never made sense to me. What does not come down to luck is our choice to engage in community. The thing with that is the more we choose community the more the odds stack in everyone’s favour to have security and things and money and anything else we could dream of.
I fear as our world becomes more segregated in the way we receive information that these stories stay circulating amongst people who already have the knowledge of what’s going on and don’t reach the people who have no awareness. Certainly I’m quite sure the journey of a refugee was not new to any of the film festival crowd. I hope this film reaches audiences that are unaware of the reality of refugees and I hope it reminds them that there is absolutely nothing a child could do that would make them undeserving of the freedom we enjoy.
Today my mind, as well as thinking about the Rohingya people, was stuck on the increasing popularity of the One Nation party in Australia. Something I find overwhelmingly baffling. It has always seemed clear to me that being rich in money and things and security has largely come down to luck. To deny these things to someone based on the fact that they just happened to be born somewhere else has never made sense to me. What does not come down to luck is our choice to engage in community. The thing with that is the more we choose community the more the odds stack in everyone’s favour to have security and things and money and anything else we could dream of.
I fear as our world becomes more segregated in the way we receive information that these stories stay circulating amongst people who already have the knowledge of what’s going on and don’t reach the people who have no awareness. Certainly I’m quite sure the journey of a refugee was not new to any of the film festival crowd. I hope this film reaches audiences that are unaware of the reality of refugees and I hope it reminds them that there is absolutely nothing a child could do that would make them undeserving of the freedom we enjoy.
Sometimes a film is not really defined by its plot or characters or images but the places your mind goes when you are given space and time to think about the journey being shown to you. There’s no particular extra weight given to the deeply harrowing aspects of the journey compared to the more mundane. You’re just being told this is how it is and you have no choice but to face it.
Today my mind, as well as thinking about the Rohingya people, was stuck on the increasing popularity of the One Nation party in Australia. Something I find overwhelmingly baffling. It has always seemed clear to me that being rich in money and things and security has largely come down to luck. To deny these things to someone based on the fact that they just happened to be born somewhere else has never made sense to me. What does not come down to luck is our choice to engage in community. The thing with that is the more we choose community the more the odds stack in everyone’s favour to have security and things and money and anything else we could dream of.
I fear as our world becomes more segregated in the way we receive information that these stories stay circulating amongst people who already have the knowledge of what’s going on and don’t reach the people who have no awareness. Certainly I’m quite sure the journey of a refugee was not new to any of the film festival crowd. I hope this film reaches audiences that are unaware of the reality of refugees and I hope it reminds them that there is absolutely nothing a child could do that would make them undeserving of the freedom we enjoy.
Today my mind, as well as thinking about the Rohingya people, was stuck on the increasing popularity of the One Nation party in Australia. Something I find overwhelmingly baffling. It has always seemed clear to me that being rich in money and things and security has largely come down to luck. To deny these things to someone based on the fact that they just happened to be born somewhere else has never made sense to me. What does not come down to luck is our choice to engage in community. The thing with that is the more we choose community the more the odds stack in everyone’s favour to have security and things and money and anything else we could dream of.
I fear as our world becomes more segregated in the way we receive information that these stories stay circulating amongst people who already have the knowledge of what’s going on and don’t reach the people who have no awareness. Certainly I’m quite sure the journey of a refugee was not new to any of the film festival crowd. I hope this film reaches audiences that are unaware of the reality of refugees and I hope it reminds them that there is absolutely nothing a child could do that would make them undeserving of the freedom we enjoy.
Titouxx
7.0★ · 04/29/26
J'ai pas grand chose à dire à part que c'est super triste et émouvant, visuellement c'est super, niveau rythme c'est un peu plus compliqué, certaines superbes scènes mais pas grand chose d'original ou d'innovant j'ai le sentiment que le film apporte sa touche qui le fait sortir du lot pour être mémorable
J'ai pas grand chose à dire à part que c'est super triste et émouvant, visuellement c'est super, niveau rythme c'est un peu plus compliqué, certaines superbes scènes mais pas grand chose d'original ou d'innovant j'ai le sentiment que le film apporte sa touche qui le fait sortir du lot pour être mémorable
Miles v
9.0★ · 04/25/26
Beautiful sad and eye-opening movie, i seriously love the experience of being thrown in a horrible environment without context,
Beautiful sad and eye-opening movie, i seriously love the experience of being thrown in a horrible environment without context,
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abdi
7.0★ · 12/03/25
The weight of the world shouldn’t be on any children shoulder to burden. The narrative flow reminds me of “Grave of Fireflies” in its focus on the sibling dynamic between Somifa and Shafi, where two children of Rohingya refugees trying to seek asylum in Malaysia. The narrative drive of the movie reflects on how the world politics had impacted their upbringing, too young to grasp on why they are running away, yet they persisted with their adolescent pluckyness to survive. At its core this is a road film that highlights the siblings bond amidst all of the evil the world has to offer with a taste of an Orphic Tragedy at the very end.
The weight of the world shouldn’t be on any children shoulder to burden. The narrative flow reminds me of “Grave of Fireflies” in its focus on the sibling dynamic between Somifa and Shafi, where two children of Rohingya refugees trying to seek asylum in Malaysia. The narrative drive of the movie reflects on how the world politics had impacted their upbringing, too young to grasp on why they are running away, yet they persisted with their adolescent pluckyness to survive. At its core this is a road film that highlights the siblings bond amidst all of the evil the world has to offer with a taste of an Orphic Tragedy at the very end.