Steve Dodd

An Australian policeman (Jerome Ehlers) investigates the hanging suicide of an Aboriginal Australian in an outback jail.

In 1944, Jack a World War 1 veteran encounters Masaru an escaped Japanese Prisoner of War on his farm in rural Australia. Broken Sun is about the legacy of war through the eyes of these ordinary men who survive it. For Masaru the film ends in ineffable tragedy, and for Jack, life is once again completely altered.

A searing drama about the racism and setbacks that befall a biracial, indigenous Australian before a shocking crime upends his life.