The Way, My Way (2025)
- Today, Mar 16
Director: Bill Bennett Run Time: 98 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2025
Starring: Chris Haywood, Jennifer Cluff, Laura Lakshmi, Pia Thunderbolt
Country: Australia
Language: English
About the film:
Based on the best selling Camino memoir of the same name by Bill Bennett.
The Way, My Way is the charming and captivating true story of a stubborn and amusingly self-centered Australian man who decides to walk the 800 kilometer-long Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route through Spain. He doesn’t know why he’s doing it, but one step at a time it will change him and his outlook on life forever. Based on Bill Bennett’s best selling memoir of the same name, The Way, My Way has been described by Camino elder statesman Johnnie Walker as the most authentic film ever made about the Camino.
About the filmmaker:
Bill Bennett is a writer, producer and director of feature films and documentaries. In a career spanning more than thirty years, he’s made sixteen feature films and numerous documentaries.
He’s won Australian Film Institute Awards for Best Picture and Best Director, and been nominated a further 12 times. He’s had two films in Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival. His films have screened at most major international film festivals, winning prizes at several.
Bill Bennett is also an author. Penguin Random House recently completed publication of his Young Adult trilogy of supernatural thrillers, Palace of Fires. His best-selling Camino memoir The Way, My Way, has been optioned for a film adaptation.
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