Train

Synopsis

Set during the Kosovo war, Train follows the story of Jeton a young man who finds himself forced onto an overfill train carriage with a group of fellow refugees. Jeton and his fellow passengers are draw together through the fear of death that they have witnessed all around them. Suddenly when the train stops, Linda a young mother asks for the front door to be open as the heat and lack of air is suffocating her baby. This request leads to a confrontation that forces all the terrified passengers to decide whether to risk death through opening the door and saving the baby or leaving it shut and saving themselves.

Director Biography

Selmon Beha was raised in a remote mining community in far north Australia where the only way in or out was by aircraft. Surrounded by wilderness and Aboriginal culture his home town of Nhulunbuy was a community without commercial television, radio and a complete absence of advertising, where time was filled fishing, camping, exploring the bush and avoiding crocodiles.