The Surfer

Key Details

Type
Feature Film
Length
1 hour 43 minutes
Release Year
2025
Production companies

Arena Media

Region filmed
South West

Synopsis

When a man returns to Australia to buy back his family home after many years in the US he is humiliated in front of his teenage son by a group of local surfers who claim ownership over the secluded beach of his childhood. Wounded, he defies them and remains at the beach, demanding acceptance. As the conflict escalates he is brought right to the edge of his sanity and his entire identity is thrown into question.

Filmed in Western Australia on the Traditional Country of the Wadandi People of the Noongar Nation