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“Buoyancy,” a dark thriller that highlights human trafficking in Thailand’s commercial fishing industry, has been selected as Australia’s submission for the best international feature film at the ...

A Cambodian boy is trafficked into slavery aboard a Thai fishing vessel in Rodd Rathjen's archetypal but gripping and brutal debut. Here, that’s 14-year-old Chakra (an impressively soulful Sarm Heng, ...

Kino Lorber has acquired all North American rights to Australian director Rodd Rathjen’s trafficking and slavery drama Buoyancy, which premiered at the Berlinale last year. Buoyancy won the Prize of ...

A celebrated Australian film, and our official Oscars submission, was among the winners at a star-studded Asia Pacific Screen Awards in Brisbane. See the full list of winners. Writer and director Rodd ...

The bleak world of South-East Asian people-smuggling might seem unlikely terrain for a coming-of-age adventure on the pirate fishing seas, but Australian director Rodd Rathjen has taken up the ...

Australia has selected Buoyancy, the debut feature from writer-director Rodd Rathjen, as its contender for the 2020 Oscars in the international feature film category. By Pip Bulbeck Australia has ...