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Stronger in Broken Places | Cinema

Australian director Anthony Maras wants to find the human in inhuman tragedies like 26/11.

As Anthony Maras and his crew were celebrating the wrap of 's India schedule in 2014, the director's thumb got caught in an industrial fan, and he lost a part of it. Almost five years after is Maras's debut feature film, but it is not the first time he has attempted to conjure a sense of terror. His first short was called Azadi, a film about Afghan refugees in Australia. His second short, Palace, told the story of a Turkish soldier who is trying to cope with the moral anguish that results from killing an innocent family.

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