Island of Hungry Ghosts's reviews
Media reviews
Brady doesn't want us to feel good, she wants us to feel the connection. She succeeds.
'Island of the Hungry Ghosts' is a great documentary that effectively shows the dark and ugly stain that detention centres have left on the country.
It's Poh Lin's growing despair and helplessness in the face of the policies and the mental deterioration of those she talks to that provide the punch to this affecting and haunting British-German-Australian production.
The cinematography is absolutely top tier, which plays heavily into the film's overarching mood and sense of atmosphere.
The Guardian
'Island of the Hungry Ghosts' also manages to be visually beautiful without poeticising the refugee experience.
Screen Daily
The film makes much of the irony and absurdity of attitudes to immigration and refugees.
The Playlist
'The Island of Hungry Ghosts' relegates itself to being little more than a pretty but wispy curiosity that fails its beleaguered subjects.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote