Continente Perduto (a.k.a. Lost Continent and Continent Perdu) is a 1955 Italian documentary film about Maritime Southeast Asia including Borneo.
Awards
It has received the following awards: 1955 Cannes Film Festival: Special Jury Prize 5th Berlin International Film Festival: Big Silver Medal (Documentaries and Culture Films)
Legacy
French literary critic Roland Barthes dedicates an essay to the film in his semiological work, Mythologies. He criticizes the filmmakers as perpetuating a European sense of exoticism, while also imposing their own Christian values onto the Buddhist traditions of the region.