HAMAKOM'S CINEMA JOURNEY

HAMAKOM's Cinema Journey film series engages people in personal journeys of spiritual growth through movies. Four movies each season portray different perspectives on the season's theme. Our film conversations, either on Zoom or in-person, create an inspiring space for participants to explore and share their experiences of the film - and to discover its underlying life lessons and hidden spiritual truths. Watch the film on your own and then attend the conversation, hosted by Valerie Edwards. You can visit our website here.

(2023 | Ivan Sen, Director | Australia |1 hr 48 mins | Crime Drama | Unrated)

Detective Travis Hurley is sent to Limbo, a desolate opal mining town in the South Australian outback, to investigate the possibility of re-opening the cold case of Charlotte Hayes, a local Indigenous woman who disappeared 20 years ago. When Travis begins his inquiries, he is met with suspicion and hostility. There had been only a cursory investigation 20 years ago, because, after all, she was just another dead Aboriginal woman. To the Black locals, Travis is another white cop, just like the earlier ones who harassed, interrogated and beat them, and then, as evidence started to point to a white perpetrator, dropped the case and walked away. As Charlie, Charlotte’s brother, bitterly tells Travis, “White girl disappears, and it gets on the TV. The helicopters turn up. Black girl goes missing, it’s swept under the rug.”

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