Alice Garner

Unable to shake the feeling that everyone at his Seventh Day Adventist summer camp is wrong, teenager Ken (Noah Taylor) gets into trouble by asking sacrilegious questions and eyeing a preacher's alluring daughter. Years later, his Adventist-flavored belief that the apocalypse is at hand propels him to flee the city with his reluctant girlfriend, much to the chagrin of her father. Bob Ellis directs this semiautobiographical coming-of-age comedy.

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 her relationship with Stewart is shaken to the core. 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. Her marriage is taken to the brink and her peaceful life with Stewart and their young son hangs in the balance. The story of a murder and a marriage. A powerful and original film about the things that haunt us.