Year: 2007

Director: Ray Lawrence

Certificate: 15

Screening date: Thursday, 10th April, 2008

Summary: Stewart Kane, an Irishman living in the Australian town of Jindabyne, is on a fishing trip in isolated hill country with three other men when they discover the body of a murdered girl in the river. Rather than return to the town immediately, they continue fishing and report their gruesome find days later. Stewart’s wife Claire is the last to find out. Deeply disturbed by her husband’s action, her faith in their relationship is shaken. She wants to understand and tries to make things right. In her determination to help the victim’s family Claire sets herself not only against her own family and friends but also those of the dead girl. The story of a murder and a marriage – a film about the things that haunt us.

Reviews: "Like his previous film 'Lantana', Lawrence's latest uses the shock of mortality to send dramatic ripples off in all directions, though here the scope's even wider...The seamless blend of domestic turmoil and haunted national self questioning is quite some achievement."
Time Out - Trevor Johnston