abstract:A Rocket Festival (, ) is a merit-making ceremony traditionally practiced by ethnic Lao people throughout much of northeast Thailand and Laos, in numerous villages and municipalities near the beginning of the rainy season. Celebrations typically include preliminary music and dance performances, competitive processions of floats, dancers and musicians on the second day, and culminating on the third day in competitive firings of home-made rockets.
The young star of The Rocket, Sitthiphon Disamoe, stars as Aholo - a boy who enters a traditional rocketfestival to help save his poverty-stricken family who have been uprooted for the construction of a dam.