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BUFFALO RIDER

By Joel SOISSON

SCHLINGEL - IFF FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG AUDIENCE - as FEST

Action/Adventure - Completed 2016

A rebellious Thai-American girl, sent to live with relatives in rural Thailand, clashes with an entire village when she befriends a mute peasant boy and inspires him to compete in the annual buffalo race.

- Year of production
- 2016
- Genres
- Action/Adventure, Social issues, Family
- Countries
- THAILAND
- Languages
- ENGLISH, THAI
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 94 mn
- Director(s)
- Joel SOISSON
- Writer(s)
- Joel SOISSON
- Cast
- Lily BHUSADHIT-A-NAN, Tuchapong RUGTAWATR
- Producer(s)
- Fabienne WEN (Motionpictures Company, Ltd.), Chariyawan TAVORANON, Raimund HUBER
- Synopsis
- Shattered by the death of her mother, Jenny becomes withdrawn and combative. Deciding she will never speak again Jenny descends into a tormented and isolated world even in the midst of big city life in Los Angeles. Her American father, at a loss to help sends her to live with her Thai grand-mother in a small Thai village. Jenny feels she is in prison until she meets Boonrod, a peasant boy shunned by his village, whose only friend is his water buffalo.