Locarno Title ‘Rapture’ Director Dominic Sangma Confronts Unregulated Stone Mining in Busan Asian Project Market Drama ‘Veil of Dust’

A villager maimed by a mining blast and his wife’s fight for compensation open up a story of exploitation, complicity and indigenous belief in “Veil of Dust,” the new project from “Rapture” director Dominic Sangma. The project is part of the Asian Project Market, which runs within the Busan International Film Festival’s Asian Contents & […] Dominic Sangma’s ‘Veil of Dust’ follows a village family upended by a stone-mining blast and a fight for compensation. A villager maimed by a mining blast and his wife’s fight for compensation open up a story of exploitation, complicity and indigenous belief in “Veil of Dust,” the new project from “Rapture” director Dominic Sangma.

The project is part of the Asian Project Market, which runs within the Busan International Film Festival’s Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM). When an explosion rips through the hills, 35-year-old Nengsal is dug out of the debris having lost a leg. His wife Ajin, 32, sets out to win compensation but runs into a system that thrives on exploiting people and keeping them quiet. The headman is compromised, an NGO in the area is pursuing its own politics, and the man running the mine discloses that Nengsal was never on the books, leaving