Call me Mum
Margot Nash | Australia 2006 | 76 min
Call me Mum is a movie about the Stolen Generations and their effects.
When Kate, a white woman, decides to reunite her Torres Strait Islander foster son with his birth mother, dangerous family and racial tensions surface.
Kate is on a plane taking her 18-year-old Torres Strait Islander foster son Warren to meet Flo, his birth mother, who is gravely ill in hospital in Brisbane. Flo hasn't seen Warren since she took him to the hospital on Thursday Island when he was a toddler and the white authorities took him away.
But as Warren, Flo and Kate all prepare themselves for the reunion, unbeknown to them, Kate's Brisbane-based parents, Dellmay and Keith are planning a different kind of reunion.
Set in the recent past, Call Me Mum is a series of interlinked monologues where five characters unravel a complex tale of mothering, race relations and family in Australia. (source: University of Technology, Sydney)
The film is a 'must see' for all Australians, especially people from the Torres Strait and their descendants, family and friends.—The Koori Mail, November 2006
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| Release dates | 2006 World Premiere, Sydney Film Festival | ||
| Video/DVD Release Date | not available | ||
| Awards | Vicki Saylor: 2007 AFI award winner for Best Guest or Supporting Actress in Television Drama | ||
| Rating | PG - mild themes | ||
| Language level | not available | ||
| Distributor | Big and Little Films, bigandlittlefilms.com | ||
| Soundtrack | David Bridie | ||
| Genre | Drama | ||
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| Find this movie | Indigenous film suppliers and distributors |
Where to from here?
- Learn about the Stolen Generations
- Explore the Stolen Generations timeline
- When the Prime Minister said 'sorry'