Beyond Sorry
David Vadiveloo | Australia 2003 | 53 min
As a young girl, Aggie Abbott hid and watched as her cousin Zita Wallace was stolen from their traditional Aboriginal community while Aggie herself was not. They were both 'half-caste' kids.
Aggie and Zita were separated for over fifty years. Zita Wallace, now 64, has decided to reconstruct her identity, her life and her history. With Aggie as her guide, Zita is learning everything she needs to know about being a traditional Aboriginal woman.
David Vadiveloo's moving documentary reveals the complex pressures that come to bear when an urban Aboriginal woman tries to return to the family she was taken from as a child. It is an intimate story of cultural conflict, remarkable courage and generosity, of the ties that bind us to our kin, and of two women from the same land trying hard to reconcile two very different worlds.
It's very apparent that... Zita's culture and her Aboriginality are the things which make her feel whole, that base her on the land.—David Vadiveloo, director
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| Release dates | 2005 - Australia | ||
| Video/DVD Release Date | not available | ||
| Awards | 2004 Sydney International Film Festival (most popular Australian documentary) | ||
| Rating | not available | ||
| Language level | not available | ||
| Distributor | not available | ||
| Soundtrack | Michael Den Elzen | ||
| Genre | Documentary | ||
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| Find this movie | Indigenous film suppliers and distributors |
There have been times when I've really wanted to just give up and it's just been too hard. —Zita Wallace
Main content kindly supplied by David Vadiveloo and Anna Kaplan.
Where to from here?
- Learn about the Stolen Generations
- Explore the Stolen Generations timeline
- When the Prime Minister said 'sorry'