GRIEF is a subject many people avoid, but for Australian writer/director Ben Pfeiffer, his own journey through dealing with and facing the loss of a parent, and seeing his three older siblings each deal with it differently, has become the inspiration for his first feature-length film, ‘The Returned’.

Winding up 18 days of filming in and around Wannon last weekend, the narrative follows two brothers and their sister coming to terms with the anticipation of their mother’s death, having been diagnosed with mesothelioma, the cancer of the lining of internal organs that manifests itself up to several decades following exposure to asbestos.