Damage

Australia / 2022 / 81 mins.
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Asylum-seeker cabbie, Ali, drives a taxi using another man's license and relies on the GPS to negotiate his way around a city he doesn't know. His passenger, Esther is an old woman who can't remember where she's going. She is angry because she has been stripped of everything that is familiar to her and she doesn't recognize the world anymore. They travel through the night in search of a vague destination while surveillance cameras mark their journey, coldly redacting the human element, defining who belongs and who doesn't, who is safe and who isn't. What they are left with is their damage - she can't remember and he can't forget.
Language:
English
Other languages:
French - Subtitle
Format:
1080 HD
Director:
Madeleine Blackwell
Writer:
Madeleine Blackwell
Producer:
Sharon Cleary, Peter Thurber, Madeleine Blackwell
Cast:
Ali Al Jenabi, Imelda Bourke
Selling Point:
  • Official Selection of London Film Festival
  • "Damage's conversational rhythms ebb and flow authentically." - ScreenDaily
  • "It is a timely work of global resonance which heralds the triumphant arrival of an important new auteur." - Noel Purdon Tributes
  • "Imelda Bourke the singer, in her film debut at the age of 92 and she is fantastic ...It's a glorious film" - Peter Goers, ABC Radio National Adelaide