Bethany Community Services presents

The Tree

Australian
Rated M
97 minutes

Newly widowed Dawn is the mother of four children: Tim, Lou, Simone and young wordless Charlie.

Dawn deals badly with the death of her husband Peter but young Simone has decided to be happy, particularly as she finds the spirit of her dead father in the Moreton Bay fig which grows beside their ramshackle house. She shares her secret with her mother.

When Dawn pulls herself together and gets a job in the office of the local plumber George - and begins a relationship with him, Simone disapproves, and so it seems does Peter.

Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Christian Byers, Tom Russell, Morgana Davies, Gabriel Gotting, Aden Young and Martin Csokas

Offical selection 2010 Cannes Film Festival