The Land of the Wandering Souls

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The Land of Wandering Souls
Directed by	Rithy Panh
Produced by	Cati Couteau
Written by	Rithy Panh
Music by	Marc Marder
Cinematography	Prum Mesa
Editing by	Isabelle Roudy Marie-Christine Rougerie
Distributed by	INA
Release date(s)	August 19, 2000 March 10, 2001 August 11, 2001 October 2, 2001 August 1, 2002
Running time	100 min.
Country	Cambodia/France
Language	Khmer
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The Land of Wandering Souls, or La terre des âmes errantes, is a 2000 French-Cambodian documentary film directed by Rithy Panh.

1 Synopsis
2 Reception
3 References
4 External links

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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]

[edit] References

^ Land of Wandering Souls. Public Broadcasting Service (2002-08-01). Retrieved on 2007-07-14.

[edit] External links

The Land of the Wandering Souls at the Internet Movie Database

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Films of Rithy Panh

Site 2 (1989) • Cambodge, entre guerre et paix (1991) • Rice People (1994) • Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy (1996) • One Evening After the War (1998) • The Land of the Wandering Souls (2000) • Que la barque se brise, que la jonque s'entrouvre (2001) • S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003) • The People of Angkor (2003) • The Burnt Theatre (2005) • Le papier ne peut pas envelopper la braise (2007) • Un barrage contre le Pacifique (2008)