HEARTS AND BONES
Narrative Feature | 111 minutes

HIFF 2018

 Conflict & Resolution

Directed by
Ben Lawrence

Produced by
Matt Reeder

Written by
Beatrix Christian, Ben Lawrence

Featuring
Hugo Weaving, Andrew Luri, Hayley McElhinney

2019 | English | Australia

War photographer Daniel Fisher (Hugo Weaving) returns home to Sydney from his latest assignment to begin preparations for an upcoming retrospective of his work within many of the world’s most dangerous combat zones. As he prepares for both the opening and, much to his partner’s discomfort, his next assignment abroad, he’s greeted by a surprise visitor: Sebastian Aman (Andrew Lury), a South Sudanese refugee urging Daniel to exclude photographs from a massacre in his village 15 years ago. As the two men come together, a friendship blossoms through the shared trauma they’ve worked so hard to move beyond, in this timely and affecting look at the difficulty of facing years of repression.