Buoyancy

Australia’s submission for Best International Feature Film at the 2020 Academy Awards®

A 14-year-old Cambodian boy secretly leaves home in search of a better life, but is sold to a Thai broker and enslaved on a fishing trawler. As fellow slaves are tortured and murdered around him, he decides his only hope of freedom is to become as violent as his captors.

Buoyancy has screened in Australia, France, the US, China, India, Thailand and Cambodia, winning multiple awards including:

Nominations:

Amnesty International Award nomination

GWFF Best First Feature Award nomination, Berlinale

Asia Pacific Screen Awards – In Competition

CinefestOz – In Competition

ATOM Award nomination – Best Fiction Feature Film

Best Actor and Audience Choice Award at the International Film Festival & Awards Macao (IFFAM)

Best Indie Film at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Televisions Arts Awards (AACTA)

Best Youth Film at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards.Silver Gateway Award at the 2019 Mumbai Film Festival

Grand Jury Prize at the 2019 Political Film Festival Porto-Vecchio

Awards:

Ecumenical Jury Prize, Berlinale

3rd Place Audience Award, Berlinale

5th Place, Audience Award – Melbourne International Film Festival 2019