The Land of the Wandering Souls
2000 Cambodian film
- 19 August 2000 (2000-08-19) (UK)
- 10 March 2001 (2001-03-10) (France)
Running time
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The Land of the Wandering Souls, or La terre des âmes errantes, is a 2000 French-Cambodian documentary film directed by Rithy Panh.
Synopsis
The film follows a Cambodian family as they work to dig a trench across Cambodia to lay the country's first optical fiber cable, depicting their hardships.
At one point during their excavation, the workers uncover a killing field, a remnant of the genocidal purges of the Khmer Rouge.
Reception
The Land of the Wandering Souls premiered at the 2000 Edinburgh International Film Festival. It went on to screen at around a dozen other film festivals, winning numerous awards, including:
- Banff Rockie Award for best social and political documentary at the Banff World Television Festival.
- Golden Gate Award for best current events film or video at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
- Best documentary feature (honorable mention) at the Vancouver International Film Festival.
- The Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival.
The film was also featured on "Wide Angle", a Public Broadcasting Service television series.[1]
References
- ^ "Land of Wandering Souls". Public Broadcasting Service. 2002-08-01. Archived from the original on 2007-06-30. Retrieved 2007-07-14.
External links
- The Land of the Wandering Souls at IMDb
- The Land of the Wandering Souls at AllMovie
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Films of Rithy Panh
- Cambodia: Between War and Peace (1991)
- Rice People (1994)
- One Evening After the War (1998)
- The Land of the Wandering Souls (2000)
- S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003)
- The People of Angkor (2003)
- The Burnt Theatre (2005)
- Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers (2007)
- The Sea Wall (2008)
- Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell (2012)
- The Missing Picture (2013)
- La France est notre patrie (2015)
- Exile (2016)
- Graves Without a Name (2018)
- Irradiated (2020)
- Meeting with Pol Pot (2024)
- Site 2 (1989)
- Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy (1996)
- Que la barque se brise, que la jonque s'entrouvre (2001)
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