Ophir

Ophir tells the story behind the likely birth of the worlds newest nation on Bougainville Island Papua New Guinea The story of an unknown indigenous revolution for humanity land and culture and a decade long war The film documents its origin and aftermath where antagonistic visions of the world collude and collide A poetic yet dramatic ode to the indelible thirst of a peoples for freedom culture and sovereignty it offers a gripping exposition of the visible and invisible chains of colonisation and its enduring cycles of physical and psychological warfare