Launching the festival will be Alias Ruby Blade, a documentary about the tumultuous birth of East Timor and Australian activist Kirsty Sword’s relationship with Timorese resistant Kay Rala ‘Xanana’ Gusmão. Following this, the HRAFF will host a collection of films and exhibitions, including Tim Page’s Requiem, a selection of photographs taken during the Cambodian civil war, and Ombline, the story of a woman raising her child in prison.
Closing the festival will be In the Shadow of the Sun, a harrowing documentary of the ritual killing of albinos in Tanzania. In the Shadow of the Sun follows albino Josephat Torner who decides stop these killings once and for all.
