Balibo / The Balibo Conspiracy

 

 
Balibo / The Balibo Conspiracy

Audience Award São Paulo International Film Festival 2010, Brazil

Fiction / Australia 2009 / English / no subtitles / 107 min

Director: Robert Connolly / Production: John Maynard, Rebecca Williamson

East Timor, 1975. As Indonesia prepares to invade the tiny nation of East Timor, five Australian based journalists go missing.

Four weeks later, veteran foreign correspondent Roger East is lured to East Timor by the young and charismatic José Ramos-Horta to tell the story of his country and investigate the fate of the missing men. As East’s determination to uncover the truth grows, the threat of invasion intensifies and an unlikely friendship develops between the last foreign correspondent in East Timor and the man who will become President.

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