Director：Robert Connolly 

Performer：anthony lapaglia....ger east nathan phillips oscar isaac....jose ramos-horta 

The film tells the story of the shooting of five Australian journalists during Indonesia's invasion of East Timor in 1975. The film is actually told through the perspective of the sixth Australian, Roger East, who was in trouble. The behind-the-scenes incident of the "Balibu Five" still plagues the relationship between Australia and Indonesia. Thirty-four years ago, five Australian television reporters were killed while trying to film Indonesia's invasion of the then Portuguese colony of East Timor, and the matter has not been properly resolved. The release of the film "Balibu" in 2009 attracted renewed attention from Australia to this matter. Five reporters visited the Indonesian border town of Balibu in October 1975, and the body was buried soon after. Indonesia has always claimed that the five people were killed in a firefight between Indonesian soldiers and fighters. Although this explanation has been strongly dissatisfied by the victim's family, Australia has never questioned this statement out of consideration for maintaining relations between the two countries. Australia's silence on the matter was broken only two years ago. A New South Wales coroner has found five journalists were deliberately killed by Indonesian fighters on the orders of Captain Yunus Yoiah to prevent them from disclosing Indonesia's attack on Balibu. Australian President Kevin Rudd (then leader of the opposition) immediately responded, "Those responsible should pay a price." The report remains with the police. The film "Barib" painstakingly retells the deaths of five journalists, and the story unfolds from the perspective of the sixth reporter, Roger East. Roger went to track down the situation of the first five reporters, but was unfortunately shot dead when Indonesian troops arrived in Dili. The young reporters were adventurously filming somewhere, and their contact with the outside world was soon cut off. As Indonesian troops approached, Greg Shackleton, one of the Five, sketched the Australian flag on a wall to save his life. Film director Robert Cononley said he made the film not only to expose the innocent deaths of journalists and thousands of East Timorese, but also to express the meaninglessness of national symbols in a state of complete chaos. International legal expert Saul said that now that order has been restored, the five Baribu people should be prosecuted for war crimes and put on trial. Knolly hopes that Indonesia and Australia will eventually deal with the truth scrupulously. However, as relations have never improved and Indonesia has been unwilling to investigate Suharto's misdeeds before 1998, the truth may never come to light.