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Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning author Tim Winton. The linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people’s lives in a stunning portrait of a small coastal community. As characters face second thoughts and regret, relationships irretrievably alter, resolves are made or broken, and lives change direction forever.
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Credits
director
Anthony Lucas
Ashlee Page
Claire McCarthy
David Wenham
Ian Meadows
Jonathan auf der Heide
Jub Clerc
Justin Kurzel
Marieka Walsh
Mia Wasikowska
Rhys Graham
Robert Connolly
Shaun Gladwell
Simon Stone
Stephen Page
Tony Ayres
Warwick Thornton
Yaron Lifschitz
producer
Maggie Miles
Robert Connolly
production company
Arenamedia
MIFF Premiere Fund
Screen Australia
writer
Ian Meadows
Duration
03:00:00