PAPER AND SAND

 

An evocative exploration of love and freedom, Paper and Sand introduces Bahram and Samira who, after a year in immigration detention, are on their way to a new home with relatives in country New South Wales. As they bide their time saving money by the beach in Sydney, their different concepts of what home might be become glaringly apparent.

Cast: Eddy Ariya, Arezo Behdasht, Callum McInerney

About the Director:
Born in Sydney and raised in Canberra, Sotiris Dounoukos attended the Australian National University, followed by the New York Film Academy and then the Film and Television School of the Victorian College of the Arts. His short films include Mona Lisa (2003), which also screens at this festival, Traces (2003) and Dante in the Park (1998). He’s currently developing two feature films.