ITHAKA

Australia | 110 min. | 2022 | English
DIRECTOR: Ben Lawrence
PRODUCER: Gabriel Shipton

SYNOPSIS:
A moving and intimate portrayal of one father’s fight to save his son, Ithaka exposes the brutal realities of the campaign to free Julian Assange.

One of the world's most famous political prisoners, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, has become an emblem of an international arm wrestle over freedom of journalism, government corruption and unpunished war crimes. Now with Julian facing a 175-year sentence if extradited to the US, his family members are confronting the prospect of losing Julian forever to the abyss of the US justice system. This David-and-Goliath struggle is personal -- and, with Julian's health declining in a British maximum-security prison, the clock is ticking.

Now it's up to Julian's father, John Shipton, and fiancé Stella Moris, to join forces to advocate for Julian on this international odyssey. As they rally a world-wide network of supporters and politicians, they cautiously step into the media's glare -- and are forced to confront the events that made Julian a global flashpoint.

AVAILABILITY:
Bookings and educational distribution via Bullfrog Films

FESTIVALS: DOC NYC 2022, Sheffield Doc Fest, DocEdge, Human Rights Watch Berlin, Human Rights Barcelona, AmDoc, Soho London Independent Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF47), Salem Film Fest.