Director
Alan Lambert
Credits
Producer:
Alan Lambert
Principal Cast
Dean Cronin
Kashmira Larkin
Ademola Oladeji
Keshet Zur
Category
Feature
Experimental
In the distant future climate change has devastated the Earth. Pushtar, a tundra on the outskirts of the Himalayas,
is home to a disparate settlement. Among them, a breed of hypersensitive children acting as weather vanes to atmospheric changes that are guided by 8ft tall ‘Pteradogs’, and governed by a council of Elders.
Lambert's third feature is an epic sci-fi film but, as critic Fergus Daly wrote, “...it’s as if Hollywood was suddenly taken over by artists”, and critic Maximilian LeCain calls it "[the] product of a truly independent cinematic sensibility." Pushtar is the fruit of an unadulterated imagination.
(Notes by Dean Kavanagh)
58 Minutes, Ireland, 2015, Colour