Voices in Deep

Voices in Deep

In Athens, just after the devastating 2015 refugee crisis, orphaned brothers Tarek and Zaeed fend for themselves on the street. In a bid for shelter and food, Tarek accepts exploitative sex work while Zaeed takes desperate, risky measures to change their circumstances. Meanwhile, Bobby, a humanitarian worker dealing with her own painful past, is trying to offload bags of illegally harvested shellfish before she returns to Australia. An astute and touching examination of statelessness, trauma and time, Voices in Deep is the second feature from Jason Raftopoulos, whose debut, West of Sunshine, first demonstrated his social-realist directorial eye. In this equally confronting yet compassionate follow-up - informed by his own Greek-Cypriot family's experiences with migration - he arranges a stellar cast of Australian and Greek actors, including Yorgos Lanthimos regular Angeliki Papoulia, to once again shine a light on lives relegated to the shadows.