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- 2019
- Sentient Art Film
- 1 h 38 m
- 2019
- Sentient Art Film
- 1 h 38 m
Summary On an isolated island in the Indian Ocean, land crabs migrate in their millions from the jungle to the sea. The same jungle hides a high-security Australian detention centre where thousands of asylum seekers have been locked away indefinitely. Their only connection to the outside world is trauma counsellor Poh Lin Lee.
- 2019
- Sentient Art Film
- 1 h 38 m
- 2019
- Sentient Art Film
- 1 h 38 m
Island of the Hungry Ghosts
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Summary On an isolated island in the Indian Ocean, land crabs migrate in their millions from the jungle to the sea. The same jungle hides a high-security Australian detention centre where thousands of asylum seekers have been locked away indefinitely. Their only connection to the outside world is trauma counsellor Poh Lin Lee.
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Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
77
83% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
17% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
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Ethereal, intensely moving.
It’s a humane, compassionate film, simultaneously full of beauty, sadness and struggle.
The film is a haunting portrait of the island as a purgatorial realm between the poles of isolation and liberation.
Nonetheless, Island of the Hungry Ghosts casts an undeniably hypnotic spell. The documentary also serves as an important reminder that the United States is far from alone in mistreating its would-be immigrants.
The film is as much an exploration of often contradictory human attitudes towards migration as it is towards the experiences of the refugees themselves.
By refusing to illuminate the detainees’ stories or the humanitarian crisis—not widely reported enough for Brady to take the audience’s familiarity as a given—they are trapped inside, The Island of Hungry Ghosts relegates itself to being little more than a pretty but wispy curiosity that fails its beleaguered subjects.
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Production Company
Chromosom Film,
Echotango,
Third Films,
Various Films
Release Date Mar 8, 2019
Duration 1 h 38 m
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Awards
Ozflix Independent Film Awards
• 5 Wins & 6 Nominations
ZagrebDox
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Mumbai Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations