ONE THOUSAND ROPES
Feature (98’)
When a father reconnects with his estranged teenage daughter, he is given a rare chance to reshape the future of his family in unexpected ways.
From the Writer and Director of The Orator - O Le Tulafale, One Thousand Ropes is a story of a father reconnecting with his youngest daughter and together putting to rest the ghosts that haunt them.
She arrives vulnerable: badly beaten and heavily pregnant. He struggles with the inner temptation and the encouragement from the men in his life, to take revenge in the way he knows best on one hand and on the other, to build the new family and companionship so desperately missing from his life. One Thousand Ropes is a deeply moving film about connections, redemption and new beginnings.
Premiere: Berlinale Film Festival (Panorama Special), 2017
Credits
Directed by: Tusi Tamasese / Produced by: Catherine Fitzgerald / Screenplay by: Tusi Tamasese / Executive Producers: Andrew Mackie & Richard Payten
Director of Photography: Leon Narbey / Editor: Annie Collins
Starring: Frankie Adams, Uelese Petaia, Sima Urale, Beulah Koale, Ene Petaia, Anapela Polataivao
Blueskin Films in Association with the New Zealand Film Commission and Fulcrum MediaFinance
Festivals & Awards
2017: Berlinale Film Festival (Panorama Special)
Māoriland Film Festival
Heartlands Film Festival
Adelaide Film Festival
BFI London Film Festival
Stockholm International Film Festival
2018: Palm Springs International Film Festival
Asian Film Festival Barcelona, Spain
University of Iowa - Bijou Film Board
2019: Montreal First People’s Film Festival, Canada.
Sales & Distribution
Australia & New Zealand: Transmission Films
International Sales: Mongrel Media
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“An intoxicating film, which is beautifully told.”
“Tamasese balances the social-realist drama of Ilisa’s plight with the kind of mystical elements more familiar from the work of Apichatpong Weerasethakul.”