Six Months to Salvation

The Plot

Six Months to Salvation | AUSTRALIA

Nominated for: Wild Card, Emerging Filmmaker

Directed by 

• Age Rating General (12 and under)
• Running time 01:36:47 mins
• Hosted By: Changing Face International Film Festival

The Experience For You

Six Months to Salvation | AUSTRALIA

Directed by Lorenzo Benitez

Produced by Lorenzo Benitez, James Holloway, and Jonathon Parker

Nominated for Wild Card (Film), Emerging Filmmaker

A group of young Australians, all recent graduates of the same Catholic high school, volunteer to teach English in rural Thailand during their gap year. Placed among the Karen hill tribe, an overwhelmingly Christian Indigenous minority in otherwise Buddhist Thailand, they gradually confront the possibility that their presence may be doing more harm than good. Directed by the only non-white volunteer, "Six Months to Salvation" is a self-reflexive documentary not only about whether 'voluntourism' is a modern form of colonialism, but the spiritual struggle to find meaning in one's mission.

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