Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Jon Bell’s “The Moogai” was Saturday named winner of the Film Prize at Western Australia’s CinefestOZ festival.
With a cash award of A$100,000 ($67,000), it is one of the richest film festival prizes in the world. Sarah and Fergus, a hopeful young Aboriginal couple, give birth to their second baby.
But what should be a joyous time of their lives becomes sinister when Sarah starts seeing a malevolent spirit that she is convinced is trying to take her baby.
Fergus, can’t see it but desperately wants to believe her. He does not know if the child-stealing spirit real or is Sarah is in fact the biggest threat to the safety of their family.
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