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Director
  
Rithy Panh

Music director
  
Marc Marder

Producer
  
Cati Couteau

Writer
  
Rithy Panh

Language
  
Khmer

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Genre
  
Documentary

Screenplay
  
Rithy Panh

Duration
  

Country
  
Cambodia France

Release date
  
United Kingdom: August 19, 2000 France: March 10, 2001 Australia: August 11, 2001 Canada: October 2, 2001 United States: August 1, 2002

Initial release
  
March 28, 2002 (Netherlands)

Similar movies
  
Directed by Rithy Panh, Movies about Cambodia, Documentaries

The Land of the Wandering Souls, or La terre des âmes errantes, is a 2000 French-Cambodian documentary film directed by Rithy Panh.

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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.

    References

    The Land of the Wandering Souls Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    The Land of the Wandering Souls IMDb