Irish Film Institute -FIRST FORTNIGHT: ISLAND OF THE HUNGRY GHOSTS

FIRST FORTNIGHT: ISLAND OF THE HUNGRY GHOSTS

Director: Gabrielle Brady

98 mins, Germany-UK-Australia, 2018, Digital


This film screened on Tuesday 15th January 2019.

Screening as part of First Fortnight 2019. 

Island of the Hungry Ghosts is a feature length documentary film directed by Gabrielle Brady set on the remote Christmas Island. Poh Lin is a trauma counsellor living on the remote Christmas Island with her young family. She works with people trying to seek asylum to Australia who have been detained in a high security detention facility, deep within the island’s jungle. The island is one of the last discovered places on earth, with humans having migrated to its shores less than a century ago.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Gabrielle Brady and executive producer Sarah Perks.

 

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