ROTTERDAM FILM FESTIVAL
WORLD PREMIERE:

LAND OF THE BLIND

Written and directed by Robert Edwards
Starring   Ralph Fiennes, Donald Sutherland, Tom Hollander, and Lara Flynn Boyle

Robert Edwards' compelling feature debut Land of the Blind (UK/US 2006) will have its world premiere on January 31 as one of 12 films in the VPRO Tiger Awards Competition at the 2006 International Film Festival Rotterdam.

LAND OF THE BLIND is a UK/US co-production directed by filmmaker Robert Edwards, a former US Army infantry and intelligence officer who served with a parachute infantry regiment in Iraq in the first Gulf war, and who won a Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his startling script. A daring piece of satire Ralph Fiennes, Donald Sutherland, Tom Hollander, and Lara Flynn Boyle, LAND OF THE BLIND is that rare animal: a film of ideas that is also visually stunning and politically provocative, with echoes of countless tyrannies, revolutions, and counter-revolutions throughout history, and unavoidable parallels to today's headlines. 

Rotterdam Film Festival screenings of LAND OF THE BLIND:

• Tuesday January 31 at 22.45 (World Premiere)
• Wednesday February 1 at 13.15
• Friday February 3 at 16.15
• Saturday February 4 at 19.15
  
  (all screenings at Pathé 7)

Hot-on-the-heels of its World Premiere at Rotterdam Film Festival, LAND OF THE BLIND launches the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival in London on March 15 as the Opening Night Benefit Gala fundraiser at the Curzon Mayfair cinema.