Beneath Clouds
Director: Ivan Sen
Writers: Ivan Sen
Cast: Dannielle Hall, Damian Pitt, Jenna Lee Connors
Producer: Teresa-Jayne Hanlon
Executive Producer:
Douglas Cummins
Country: Australia
Year: 2002
Lena, a fair skinned teenage girl with a dark skinned mother in an isolated town. She rejects the Indigenous family which surrounds her, and longs for the love of her Irish father.
Vaughn a dark skinned teenage boy lives in an isolated prison camp. He is angry at the White world that surrounds him and lashes out when provoked. Incarceration has made him old before his time and has separated him from the love of his family.
These two hardened young souls escape from their worlds, and hitchhike together towards Sydney, in a struggle for purpose, identity and love.
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Winner:
First Film Award - Ivan Sen
Berlin International Film Festival 2002
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Winner:
New Talent Award - Dannielle Hall
Berlin International Film Festival 2002