Near a coastal village of Thailand, by the sea where thousands of Rohingya refugees have drowned, a local fisherman finds an injured man lying unconscious in the forest. He rescues the stranger, who does not speak a word, offers him his friendship and names him Thongchai. But when the fisherman suddenly disappears at sea, Thongchai slowly begins to take over his friend’s life.

Moei River. A small body of water marking a frontier between Thailand and Myanmar. I arrived at this place in 2009, alone and excited, looking across to the Myanmar side. There was no immigration checkpoint, no patrol soldier, no barbed wires. Just a waist-deep creek separating me from crossing over. I looked ahead to the other side.
That same year, boats carrying Rohingya refugees were pushed away from the Thai shore by the authorities. Five wooden boats capsized. Three hundred Rohingyas disappeared into the ocean.
In 2015, on a hill in Padang Besar, a southern Thai border town 300 metres away from Malaysia's Perlis Tunnel, a mass gravesite of Rohingyas were discovered. The cause of those deaths remains a mystery. As corpses cannot talk, things were slowly forgotten. At a pivotal scene in my film, multiple voices were heard in the forest. They are the voices of sorrow and tears. I recorded those voices from Rohingya refugees in Thailand. Their voices will not disappeared and forgotten. They will continue to exist, in my film.

2018 제59회 데살로니키국제영화제 예술공헌상, 인권상, 브론즈알렉산더상
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2018 제16회 자그레브영화제
2018 제34회 바르샤바국제영화제
2018 제29회 스톡홀름영화제
2018 제66회 산세바스티안국제영화제
2018 제43회 토론토국제영화제
2018 제37회 벤쿠버국제영화제
2018 제75회 베니스국제영화제 오리종티상
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