Loas
2009/digibeta/75mins – AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
TUESDAY 3 NOVEMBER 6.15 PM – Dendy
A rare insight into life in Laos, this documentary follows two boys in a coming of age journey that rides the twin currents of Buddhist wishfulness and western dreams.
Filmed over the course of four years, Irish filmmaker Anna Rodgers follows Leh and Bo, eleven year old cousins and best friends. Their future seems certain: leave school, marry young and toil season after season in the paddy fields. Their uncle decides that there is a better option available for the boys: they will move to the temple city of Luang Prabang where, after years of discipline and study, they might be able to find an office job. Rodgers beautifully captures the boys’ enchanting story as they leave their village in search of a better future.
Festival screenings include Vancouver, Galway, Guth Gafa, Cork, Dublin
“Anna Rodgers has a great eye for juxtaposition of old and new.” Colman Higgins, Fringe Report
Director/Cinematographer Anna Rodgers Producer John Murray Print Source Crossing The Line Films Greystones Ireland
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Looking forward to seeing this film at the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival Friday, March 5.