From ArtFX School:
Graduation Film Project 2016 -
"Vanity presides high on a mountain; everything on the plainbelow seems irrelevant". Henri-Frédéric Amiel
("La vanité tr?ne sur une montagne inaccessible, tout dans la plaine lui para?t insignifiant". Henri-Frédéric Amiel)
Taratoa Stappard’s brooding debut feature plunges us into the dour moors of 1859 North Yorkshire, where the British Empire’s reach casts long and twisted shadows. Mary Stevens (Ariāna Osborne), a young Māori teacher from Aotearoa (New Zealand), arrives in search of family truths, only to find the man who summoned her already dead and no clear path home. Stranded in an unfamilia...