Australian Cinema:The Home Song Stories

In this courageous biographical narrative on his mother, Australia’s acclaimed director Tony Ayres recounts his traumatic childhood marked by his mother’s unstable personality and her erratic decisions that forced him and his teenage sister to move from country to country and place to place. Dr Dhamu Pongiyannan presents an analysis of this provocative film, The Home Song Stories(dir. Tony Ayres, 2007), for SBS Tamil listeners.