A barren, sun-scorched desert. In the middle of nowhere stands a cage with a dark-skinned woman locked inside. Day turns to night, yet the woman appears to be waiting with infinite patience for someone to come and rescue her. In vain. On the verge of exhaustion, she decides to take her fate into her own hands and to set out on a journey through a dystopian world that seems to have lost all sense of humanity. Dutch-born Australian director Rolf de Heer composes haunting images through which he meditates on the cruelty of life in a segregated society while also telling a thrilling adventure of the wanderings of a “pure soul” in a story full of twists and turns and a surprisingly subtle sense of humor.
Anna Kořínek
96 min / Color, DCP
Director Rolf de Heer
/ Screenplay Rolf de Heer
/ Dir. of Photography Maxx Corkindale
/ Music Anna Liebzeit
/ Sound Adam Dixon-Galea, Tom Heuzenroeder
/ Editor Isaac Coen Linsday
/ Art Director Uwe Feiste
/ Producer Julie Bryne, Rolf de Heer
/ Production Vertigo Productions
/ Coproduction Triptych Pictures
/ Cast Mwajemi Hussein, Deepthi Sharma, Darsan Sharma
/ Sales Fandango
Rolf de Heer (1951, Heemskerk, Netherlands). Selected filmography: Bad Boy Bubby (1993), The Quiet Room (1996), The Tracker (2002), Alexandra's Project (2003), Ten Canoes (2006), Charlie's Country (2013), The Survival of Kindness (2023).
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Rolf de Heer
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