Cast:Hugo Weaving, Andrew Luri, Hayley McElhinney, Bolude Watson, Gassin Obeide Alameddine, Mohamed Lamine Bangoura, Ava Caryofyllis, Deng Deng, Dereb Desalegn, Alan Dukes, Tendai Dzwairo, Victoria Haralabidou, Michael Kotsohilis, Arrawai Masiang, Samira Masiang, Eric Ndabunguye, Pat Powell, John Puckeridge-Webb, Jack Scott, Sammila Sitole, Ling Cooper Tang, Teresa Zaidan, Karim Zreika, Lawrence Ola, Jared Quinn
Synopsis
In Ben Lawrence's beautifully acted debut feature, a war photographer Hugo Weaving and a refugee Andrew Luri discover a photograph that threatens to destroy them both. Daniel Fisher Weaving returns home, and despite his partner's protests, prepares for his next dangerous overseas assignment. At the same time, he is preparing for an upcoming retrospective exhibition of his work from the world's war zones. South Sudanese refugee, Sebastian Aman Luri has built a life in Australia, living happily with his wife and young child. When he learns that Daniel's exhibition may display photographs of a massacre in Sebastian's village 15 years earlier, he finds Daniel and appeals to him to exclude those photographs. An unlikely friendship develops between the two men, but it is severely tested when Daniel makes a shocking discovery. Hearts and Bones centres around the relationship of these two men, from very different backgrounds, who bond over their shared trauma. Andrew Luri, who has never ac
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