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 |
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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]
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] After the organization decided to add the eligible documentary films to its Public Prize ballot, the film was also named as a nominee in that category.[11]