Lion (2016)

A man who was adopted as a child lies on a couch in Tasmania and scours Google Earth for the home in rural India where he was brought up, in this deeply personal and deeply moving movie treatment of Saroo Brierley's 25 years' lost, a threadbare mouse-click of a story greatly benefitted by National Geographic-style photography, a score that swells at all the right emotional moments and the wonderful performance of Sunny Pawar.

★★★★☆

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Tracks (2013)

This movie based on the book, Tracks by Robyn "The Camel Lady" Davidson, details her 1977 journey across 2000km of Australian desert from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean with just her dog and three camels, and it brings the outback to staggeringly beautiful life and along the way tantalises with bits and pieces of information about her, helping with the mystery of why anyone so young would strike so determinedly upon such a singular, dangerous and lonely plan.

★★★★☆

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