EXCLUSIVE : Beijing-based sales agent Rediance has boarded Japanese director Akio Fujimoto’s Rohingya refugee drama Lost Land , ahead of its premiere in Venice’s Horizons competition section.

The Japan-France-Malaysia-Germany collaboration is the first-ever Rohingya-language film, acted entirely by Rohingya.

The story follows a four-year-old boy and his nine-year-old sister who leave a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh on a perilous journey to reach Malaysia, in the hope of reuniting with their scattered family. They spend endless days on an overcrowded smugglers’ boat until an incident leaves them lost in Thailand.

More than 200 Rohingya people took part in the film, including the young siblings who play the main roles. None were trained actors.

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