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Island of the Hungry Ghosts

Wednesday, September 11, 2019 at 7:00pm to 8:34pm

Willard Straight Theatre
Central Campus

On an isolated island in the Indian Ocean, land crabs migrate in the millions from the jungle to the sea. The same jungle hides a high-security Australian detention center where thousands of asylum seekers have been locked away indefinitely. Their only connection to the outside world is trauma counsellor Poh Lin Lee. "Filmmaker Gabrielle Brady tells a powerful and moving story from inside Australia's Guantánamo... A fierce, valuable, compassionate film." (The Guardian)"Gorgeous... [A] beautifully rendered portrait of an alien landscape... Reality is suspended and in its place Brady's surrealist dreamscape, shot breathtakingly by Michael Latham, becomes an all-encompassing tribunal on man's inhumanity to man in a clandestine landscape filled with lost spirits." (Filmmaker Magazine)website: christmasislandfilm.com

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Event Type

Film

Departments

Cornell Cinema, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Tags

film, movie, cinema, tfdcin, Movies, perfhum

Website

http://cinema.cornell.edu/island-hung...

Cost

All Access Pass: $0 or Tickets: $7/students, $5.50/grads, $7.50/seniors, $9.50/general

Group
Cornell Cinema
Contact E-Mail

taa39@cornell.edu

Contact Name

Teresa Alvis

Contact Phone

607-255-3522

Open To

Public

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