A boy who is believed to bring bad luck leads his family and a couple of ragged misfits through Laos to find a new home. After a calamity-filled journey through a land scarred by war, to prove he’s not cursed he builds a giant rocket to enter the most lucrative but dangerous competition of the year: the Rocket Festival.
Winner of the best first feature award and the Crystal Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
The Rocket
2013
General Audiences
96 min.
Fiction
Australia, Laos, Thailand
Colorido
Kim Mordaunt
Kim Mordaunt
Andrew Commis
Nick Meyers
Sitthiphon Disamoe, Loungnam Kaosainam, Thep Phongam
Sylvia Wilczynski
Red Lamp Films
LevelK
37