Buoyancy

60th TIFF: Greek Premiere

Deep in rural Cambodia, a fourteen-year-old boy named Chakra works in the rice fields with his family. He yearns for independence and seeks out a broker who promises to get him paid work in a Thai factory. Without telling anyone, he travels to Bangkok to make his fortune. After a grueling journey across the border, he realizes the bitter truth. He and his fellow Cambodian travelers are enslaved on a fishing trawler. As life becomes endless torture, Chakra comes to the conclusion that his only hope of freedom is to become as violent as his captors.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Rodd Rathjen

Script: Rodd Rathjen

Cinematography: Michael Latham

Editing: Graeme Pereira

Sound: Dane Cody, Sam Petty

Music: Lawrence English

Actors: Sarm Heng, Thanawut Kasro, Mony Ros

Production: Causeway Films

Producers: Samantha Jennings, Kristina Ceyton, Rita Walsh

Co-producers: Steven McKinnon

Costumes: Kanhchana Samrith

Executive producer: Jeff Harrison, Kate Kennedy, Bryce Menzies, Jonathan Page, Michele Turnure-Salleo, Alicia Brown, Jonathan Duffy, Paula Smith Arrigoni, Rithy Panh

Make Up: Rachana Boun

Format: DCP

Color: Color

Production Country: Australia

Production Year: 2019

Duration: 93΄

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Awards/Distinctions: Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Panorama) – Berlin IFF 2019

Rodd Rathjen

Australian writer/director Rodd Rathjen is a Victoria College graduate. His short film Tau Seru, shot in India, was screened at the Cannes Film Festival, as part of Critics Week 2013 and won the Best Australian Short prize at the Melbourne International Film Festival 2013. Buoyancy is his debut feature film.