The Sound of One Hand Clapping
A child without a past - a mother without a future - a story about love.
Tasmania, 1954: Slovenian migrant Melita abandons her husband and young daughter, Sonja. Sonja's distraught father perseveres with his new life in a new country, but he is soon crushed into an alcoholic despair, and Sonja herself abandons him at the earliest opportunity. Now, nearly 20 years later, a single and pregnant Sonja returns to Tasmania's highlands and to her father in an attempt to put the pieces of her life back together.
- Year: 1998
- Country: Australia
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Australian Film Finance Corporation, South Australian Film Corporation, Artist Services
- Keyword: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), war crimes, refugee camp, despair, bath tub, family history, heirloom, alienation, alcoholism, unwillingly pregnant, dam, domestic abuse, citizenship, single father, archive footage, rabbit hunting, broken heart, tasmania, emptiness, ghosts of the past, slovenia, peaches, war refugees, baked beans, loss of smell, knead
- Director: Richard Flanagan
- Cast: Kerry Fox, Kristof Kaczmarek, Evelyn Krape, Rosie Flanagan, Essie Davis, Jacek Koman
