Film
Island of the Hungry Ghosts
- Director
- Gabrielle Brady
- Certificate
- 12A
- Running Time
- 98 mins
The global refugee crisis has sparked a mini-boom of documentaries in a variety of styles, the best of which is Gianfranco Rosi’s Oscar-nominated Fire at Sea.
Gabrielle Brady‘s Sundance award-winning first feature Island of the Hungry Ghosts takes us to the remote, mostly uninhabited Christmas Island. Hidden away in its jungle is Australia’s biggest offshore refugee detention centre, where thousands of asylum seekers are locked away indefinitely. Their only contact with the outside world is trauma counsellor Poh Lin Lee.
Director Gabrielle Brady will be present for a Q&A after the Watershed’s screening on Jan 16.
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