this is warwick thornton, the director, and you said this was partially based on his own experience? i knew warwick's work, and people may have seen sweet country, or his first feature, samson and delilah, which won the camera d'or at cannes. and of course, for this film, he won the golden frog at camerimage, which is the biggest cinematography prize in the world. but, you know, his work is often quite savage and brutal, but this is a... it's a very personal story about his own experience, which i didn't know. he was taken off country, sent away by his mother to be disciplined and educated by benedictine nuns and monks. and i didn't realise that. so i had been obsessed myself with the church, the catholic church, not being a catholic at all, but my father died young and i was hoping, you know, in some way, that i would find some sense of comfort through the rituals of churchgoing. and so we found this connection. and i... and so he's wrote from his own experience about going on 20 years ago now. and i think he put that... it was so personal, he put it in his sock drawer, his proverbi

well, it's a film by warwick thornton, who's one of australia's great directors.n it's been extrapolated out from there. but in a nutshell, it's set on a remote monastery