Lucky Miles (2007)


Kenneth Moraleda        Arun
Rodney Afif             Youssif
Srisacd Sacdpraseuth    Ramelan
Glen Shea               O'Shane
Sean Mununggurr         Tom
Sawung Jabo             Muluk
Arif Hidayat            Abdu

Directed by:            Michael James Rowland
Produced by:            Michael Bourchier, Jo Dyer, Lesley Dyer


There are those who have made their mark on Australian history by blundering up on to beaches on 
the basis of bad advice; others have secured their place in legend by wandering around hopelessly 
lost in the desert. An Indonesian fishing boat abandons a group of Iraqi and Cambodian men on a 
remote part of the Western Australian coast. Told there is a bus over the dunes, the men are abandoned 
to a desert the size of Poland. While most are quickly rounded up, three men with little in common 
but their history of misfortune, elude capture and begin an epic but confused journey. They are 
searching for sanctuary, family, a way home or the myriad of other things that have always drawn 
people to such an unlikely place as Australia. Pursued by an army reservist unit, they wander deeper 
into the desert, searching desperately among the harsh beauty of the Pilbara for a compassionate 
western democracy. Or at least a bus to Perth.

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An Indonesian fishing boat abandons a group of Iraqi and Cambodian men on a remote part of the Western 
Australian coast. Told there is a bus over the dunes, the men are abandoned to a desert the size of 
Poland. While most are quickly rounded up, three men with little in common but their history of 
misfortune elude capture and begin an epic but confused journey drawn on by their hopes amplified by 
the empty desert. Pursued by an army reservist unit more concerned with playing ball sports and music, 
our three protagonists wander deeper into trouble, searching desperately among the harsh beauty of the 
Pilbara for evidence of a western, liberal democracy. Or the promised bus.