Life After the Oasis

Life After the Oasis

Where are they now?

2019 · 75 min · ★ 6.0 · Documentary

In 2008, feature documentary, The Oasis, shocked Australia with its gritty insight into the lives of homeless teens at a notorious youth refuge in inner city Sydney. An outpouring of social and political goodwill followed, with the then Prime Minister pledging to halve homelessness by 2020. A decade later, with social inequality and homelessness worse than ever, the original participants reflect on where their lives have taken them.

Directed by Sascha Ettinger-Epstein

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