
Bitter Paradise: The Sell-out of East Timor
1996, English. Directed by Elaine Brière.
The political journey of Canadian photographer Elaine Brière from the villages of East Timor to the halls of the United Nations in an effort to find out Ottawa's rational for abandoning the tiny nation of East Timor to corporate interests in Indonesia.
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- 0h 56m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- English
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- Released
- 1 January 1996
- Country
- Canada, Portugal
- Written by
- Elaine Brière
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Bitter Paradise: The Sell-out of East Timor isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1996. (Checked 14 November 2026.)
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Who directed Bitter Paradise: The Sell-out of East Timor?
Bitter Paradise: The Sell-out of East Timor (1996) was directed by Elaine Brière and stars Elaine Brière, Noam Chomsky, Jean Chrétien.