For his sophomore movie, Dominic Sangma returns to the festival circuit with “Rapture”, the second part of his thematic trilogy on village life. The Indian-Chinese-Swiss co-production premiered in Locarno, and was shot on location in the (largely Christian) state of Meghalaya in Northeast India, where the director actually grew up as a child.
Rapture screened in Locarno Film Festival
One night, a 14-year old boy collecting rare cicadas that only appear only every two years at night, goes missing in the forest. The villagers begin to search, but as time passes and he is not found, rumors of child kidnappers roaming around the area start circulating, with the locals assuming that they are part of an organ-trafficking ring sent in the woods by big city hospitals. While a local legend regarding nymphs also becomes part of the suspicions regarding the perpetrator, the pastor of the village announces the advent of...
Rapture screened in Locarno Film Festival
One night, a 14-year old boy collecting rare cicadas that only appear only every two years at night, goes missing in the forest. The villagers begin to search, but as time passes and he is not found, rumors of child kidnappers roaming around the area start circulating, with the locals assuming that they are part of an organ-trafficking ring sent in the woods by big city hospitals. While a local legend regarding nymphs also becomes part of the suspicions regarding the perpetrator, the pastor of the village announces the advent of...
- 9/5/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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