Join us for a screening of The Rocket. A boy who is believed to bring bad luck leads his family and a couple of ragged misfits through Laos to find a new home. After a calamity–filled journey through a land scarred by war, the boy sets off to prove he’s not cursed and builds a giant rocket to enter the most lucrative but dangerous competition of the year: The Rocket Festival.

Film Forward is an international touring program that offers film screenings, workshops and discussions with filmmakers, designed to foster dialogue and greater cultural understanding.

Film Forward is an initiative of the Sundance Institute and the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanitities in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for Humanitities, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Film Forward Michigan is brought to you in collaboration with U-M Library.