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Some stories shake a nation. Others slip away, Katherine Kizilios, The Age
Amal Basry watched Titanic at a cinema in Baghdad the night before she fled Iraq. Months later, the people-smuggling boat she was on, which became known as the SIEV-X, sank between Indonesia and Australia. 350 people drowned in Australia�s largest maritime disaster since WWII. Amal was one of the seven survivors who made it to Australia after spending 22 hours in the ocean clutching to a floating corpse.
In public, Amal became an advocate for the survivors of the SIEV-X. In private, she fought to reunite her fragmented family, cope with the personal consequences of the disaster and return to Indonesia to �find what I lost in the ocean�.
Following sell-out screenings at MIFF, Hope shows us the human face of one of the most horrific and controversial, yet unpublicised, events in modern Australia. 
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