Lifeline

Bloodlines is about finding your heritage in urban Australia. Finding out where your blood runs.

A radio jockey who does radio shows about different classes and jobs of people, but the guy seems to retire due to financial loss and an unsecured job which was highly judged by the society.

Suraj is a young boy who comes from a marginalised community of pit diggers...the only one who has an urge to study. Disha is a new teacher in his school. She is Suraj's only hope to get out of a life that is literally in the pits. With an ignorant father it is not an easy task for him. Disha too has to face harassment from the village chief. While Suraj is a victim of class and caste discrimination, the living conditions of his community pull him into a vicious circle which does not offer him an optimistic road to education and progress. The film has been made using actual locations and depicts real life situations, giving us an experience more devastating than fiction. The challenge of portraying misery without glorifying it makes this film stand out.

This story, set in 1990 in Narobi Kenya. A mysterious and frightening disease starts to devastate communities in East Africa. The tradionalist are calling it a 'curse caused by sorcery'. Trained doctors are calling it a new virus transmitted through bodily fluids. People in the neighborhood are caught between both worlds. The movie tells of a teenager Wamba who lives in the neighborhood 'Cali' in Narobi, Kenya where AIDS is not well known and death is often associated with sorcery. In his spare time he sells used books and hangings out with his friends playing soccer near the corner store. The day Wamba loses his parents to AIDS he becomes the neighborhood enemy. His friends are afraid that Wamba is a sorcerer or AIDS victim.

Sumudu is a poor boy living with his ailing mother. Dilini is his rich friend who helps him during numerous times. Sumudu and his mother are unable to pay the rent of their house and he tries to find them a house of their own.