DOCS BY THE SEA 2025  •  VIRTUAL LAB : 24 JULY–04 AUGUST  •  IN-PERSON LAB : 03–06 SEPTEMBER  •  FORUM : 07–10 SEPTEMBER

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Five Incarnations

A desperate attempt by a daughter to repair trauma caused by war and internalised racism. How far will she go to confront the truth of her father’s past and actions?

There is no official trace, no way to prove my connection to my father. Born in exile during the Second World War, the son of a revolutionary, my father had no birth certificate. When he arrived in Melbourne during the ‘White Australia’ policy, he reinvented himself. He changed his identity, age, heritage, and religion to marry my mother and obtain citizenship. This was an early deception. It was not the first nor the last. Based on my relationship with my father and my family, ‘Five Incarnations’ is a highly personal story of reinvention. It is also a story of victims who are women in their 20s from small communities all over the world. I use my video camera like a detective uses a notepad to confront my father in our family’s living room in India. I risk everything. I do it for my mother, my stepmother, my father’s former lover. I do it for myself.

Project Team Member(s)

Rosie Jones

Editor

Kylie Boltin

Director Producer

Project Info

Project Status

Development

Duration

70 Minutes

Country of Production

Est. Completion

2026

Production Company

Kylie Boltin Films