New Zealand, 1981: muscle cars, racial tensions and a thieving bird all inform the small town life of brothers Willie and Solomon. After a chance encounter with charismatic thief Bennie and his close-knit gang of ‘shoppers’, Willie is seduced into a criminal world that allows him to escape mounting tensions with his volatile father. But as Bennie’s hold over him grows Willie finds himself in over his head; and when Solomon is left to fend for himself at home, Willie’s two worlds collide with shattering consequences.
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Festival/Awards:
2013: Sundance Film Festival (World Dramatic Competition), Berlin International Film Festival (Generation 14plus Grand Prix Best Feature Film), Guanajuato International Film Festival, Saint Tropez Film Festival, Seoul International Youth Film Festival, Vladivostok International Film Festival, Crime and Punishment Film Festival,
Saint Petersburg Film Festival,
Encounters Film Festival,
Kino w Trampkach - Cinema with Sneakers,
ImagineNATIVE Film Festival,
Tallinn Black Nights – Just Film Festival
Technical information:
Ratio 1:1.85; Dolby SR/SRD.