The Land of the Wandering Souls
- The Land of the Wandering Souls
Infobox Film
name = The Land of Wandering Souls
caption =
director = Rithy Panh
producer = Cati Couteau
writer = Rithy Panh
narrator =
starring =
music = Marc Marder
cinematography = Prum Mesa
editing = Isabelle Roudy
Marie-Christine Rougerie
distributor = INA
released = flagicon|United Kingdom August 19, 2000
flagicon|France March 10, 2001
flagicon|Australia August 11, 2001
flagicon|Canada October 2, 2001
flagicon|United States August 1, 2002
runtime = 100 min.
country = Cambodia/France
language = Khmer
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website =
amg_id = 1:212233
imdb_id = 0245500
"The Land of Wandering Souls", or "La terre des âmes errantes", is a 2000 French-Cambodian documentary film directed by Rithy Panh.
ynopsis
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.[cite web | title = Land of Wandering Souls | publisher = Public Broadcasting Service | date = 2002-08-01 | url = http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/about/film4.html | accessdate = 2007-07-14 ] ]References
External links
*imdb title|id=0245500|title=The Land of the Wandering Souls
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