Khadim Dai

An ordinary man faces an impossible decision, one which no decent person should have to make. Anchors Away is a hallucinatory quest into the wilderness of one man’s psyche, where strange personalities are buried deep. Will he find the answers he’s looking for or be destroyed in the process?

In December 2012, Muzafar Ali and his wife Nagina escaped the Taliban in Afghanistan. They found themselves living in Indonesia as refugees when Australia ‘stopped the boats’. Determined to do something, they started a small two room school, which soon became the hub of a community and the most successful refugee-led initiative in the world.

A decade after surviving a deadly school bombing, a Hazara filmmaker returns to Quetta, Pakistan, to confront his past. Blending intimate family moments with the ongoing story of persecution and migration. The film is a poetic meditation on loss, resilience, and memory.