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 (Writer / Director / Editor) is a Japanese filmmaker known for his intimate, socially engaged cinema. Born in Osaka in 1988, he trained in film at the city’s Visual Arts Academy. His debut feature, Passage of Life (2017), a Japan-Myanmar co-production, received international acclaim, winning the Best Feature and the Spirit of Asia Best Director awards of the Asian Future section at the Tokyo International Film Festival. He continued exploring migration and identity in Along the Sea (2020), presented at the San Sebastián Film Festival. Drawing on personal and cultural experiences, his work blends fiction and documentary with a restrained, humanistic approach, often focusing on the lives of those at the margins.
E.x.N K.K.
Dongyu
KinemaTowards
Panorama Films
Elom Initiatives
Cinemata
Cineric Creative
Scarlet Visions
Shomira Rias Uddin
Muhammad Shofik Rias Uddin
Director: Akio Fujimoto
Screenplay: Akio Fujimoto
Produced by Kazutaka Watanabe
Executive Producers: Mizue Kunizane, Shogo Yasukawa
Co-producers: Angèle de Lorme, Sujauddin Karimuddin, Elise Shick, Christian Jilka
Consulting Producer: Eric Nyari
Director of Photography: Yoshio Kitagawa
Editor: Akio Fujimoto
Sound: Youki Yaei
Colorist: Yov Moor
Music: Ernst Reijseger
Production Designer: Tam Khalid
Costume Designer: Jessie Yeow
Assistant Director: Bilal Kawazoe
Line Producer: Gabrielle Lee
Venice Film Festival
Orizzonti Competition
