On a remote tropical island, forty-million crabs migrate through a dense jungle and rocky shores to the freedom of the sea.

Christmas Island is also a temporary home to refugees seeking passage to Australia but confined to a high security detention centre deep in the jungle.

With a brilliant score, lush cinematography and keen attention to detail, this award-winning documentary focuses on the detention centre’s trauma counselor as she and her young family navigate local mythologies that surround them.

This haunting, poetic observation of the human condition and our natural world is one of the year’s most stunning directorial debuts.

Written by Alexander Rogalski

Visions du Réel

DocAviv

Winner of Special Mentiona at the Edinburgh International Film Festival

Best Documentary Feature, Tribeca Film Festival

Best Documentary Film, Valletta Film Festival

Buyens-Chagoll Award, Visions du Réel