Island of the Hungry Ghosts

Island of the Hungry Ghosts is a hybrid documentary film by director Gabrielle Brady that follows trauma therapist Poh Lin Lee as she navigates her daily life on Christmas Island, where she works with asylum seekers held indefinitely in a high-security detention centre. The film explores the contrast between the island's natural beauty and the chaos of the detention centre, where Poh Lin confronts the growing sense of despair of the people she counsels. As Poh Lin's therapy sessions progress, she begins to feel the impact of the detention centre's oppressive system on her own life, highlighting the complex and often fraught realities of asylum seeker treatment.