Sure To Rise

Name: New Zealand Film Commission
Price range: $

DIRECTOR’S NOTES - Niki Caro “I wanted to make a small film about our trampled instincts and forgotten tenderness. A story that was both epic and intimate, that could work on both real and mystical levels. ...

New Zealand Production

Short 1994 Drama 15.00 minutes

The story of April, a child-like recluse, who finds a broken man in the sand while beachcombing. She takes him home to live with her in a fringe dwelling. But this tiny semi-industrial area called Paradise is being threatened by the expansion of industry, and its inhabitants forced to move on.