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THE ROCKET

By Kim MORDAUNT

BERGEN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - as DISTR Theatrical, NORWAY / FEST

Drama - Completed 2013

- Year of production
- 2013
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- AUSTRALIA
- Duration
- 96 mn
- Director(s)
- Kim MORDAUNT
- ISAN
- 0000-0003-8529-0000-E-0000-0000-W
- EIDR
- 10.5240/5FDA-72F1-461F-5F84-B6E7-S
- Synopsis
- Laos: A boy (Ahlo, 10), who is believed to bring bad luck, is blamed for a string of disasters. When his family loses their home and are forced to move, Ahlo meets the spirited orphan Kia (9) and her eccentric uncle Purple: an ex-soldier with a purple suit, a rice-wine habit and a fetish for James Brown. Struggling to hang on to his father's trust, Ahlo leads his family, Purple and Kia through a land scarred by war in search of a new home. But bad luck seems to follow Ahlo, and in a last plea to prove he's not cursed, Ahlo builds a giant explosive rocket to enter the most lucrative but dangerous competition of the year: The Rocket Festival. As the most bombed country in the world shoots back at the sky, a boy will reach to the heavens for forgiveness.