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A Thousand and One

Horizons 2023 / A Thousand and One / USA 2022

A Thousand and One A Thousand and One

Synopsis

Filmmaker A.V. Rockwell knows that an original, strong and complex main character essentially constitutes half the success of a truly great film. Her Inez de la Paz (the phenomenal Teyana Taylor) is proud, impulsive and unpredictable, yet also loving and single-minded. The charismatic woman, hardened by the streets of New York and time spent behind bars, grabs the viewers’ attention when she kidnaps her six-year-old son Terry from his foster home. This emotive drama, which garnered the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance this year, unfolds over the course of two decades; during this time the mother, determined to provide her son with the home she never had, grapples not only with the signs of the times, such as gentrification, but also with the consequences of radical decisions made long ago.

Karel Och

About the film

116 min / Color, DCP

Director A.V. Rockwell / Screenplay A.V. Rockwell / Dir. of Photography Eric K. Yue / Music Gary Gunn / Editor Sabine Hoffman, Kristan Sprague / Art Director Sharon Lomofsky / Producer Eddie Vaisman, Julia Lebedev, Lena Waithe, Rishi Rajani, Brad Weston / Production Sight Unseen, Hillman Grad, Makeready / Cast Teyana Taylor, Aaron Kingsley Adetola, Aven Courtney, Josiah Cross, Will Catlett / Sales NBCUniversal / Distributor CinemArt, a.s.

About the director

A.V. Rockwell

A.V. Rockwell (1970, Queens, New York). Filmography: Feathers (2018, short), A Thousand and One (2023).

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NBCUniversal
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CinemArt, a.s.
Národní 60/28, 111 21, Praha 1
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 224 949 110
E-mail: [email protected]

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