Timorese cinema is still finding its feet, shaped largely by the country's traumatic recent history and its hard-won independence in 2002. Australian co-production Balibo, covering the 1975 deaths of journalists during the Indonesian invasion, is among the most prominent films to bring that story to international audiences. See what Macca made of it below.
Rating: 3.5★
There are corners of twentieth-century history that cinema has barely touched, and the Indonesian occupation of East Timor is one of them. From 1975 to 1999, the territory endured what international tribunals have since described as a campaign of systematic violence, famine, and cultural suppression that killed a significant
Genre Drama
★★★ — Balibo (2009)
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