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Curtis Levy
Because of work commitments and the influence of Christian missions, traditional mourning ceremonies among the Tiwi people of Melville Island were becoming rare at the time of making this film (1974). The full, elaborate ceremony, called the…
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Drama |
Stuart McDonald
Mr Electric is set in outback Queensland in 1956, in a time when people still used kerosene lamps for light.
Bill, an Aboriginal electrician employed to electrify the countryside, has no place, either in the white world in which he grew up, or in…
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Catriona McKenzie
The art of Papunya Tula, commonly known as “dot painting,” is internationally renowned. Mr. Patterns tells the story of Geoff Bardon who, together with the Papunya artists, was a catalyst for what many consider one of the greatest art movements of…
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Hart Cohen
T.G.H. (Theodor George Henry, or Ted) Strehlow was one of Australia's most eminent and controversial anthropologists. This fascinating documentary traces his life from his childhood at Hermannsburg (NT) as the son of Lutheran missionaries, to his…
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John Harvey
Mudskipper, about Martha, a Torres Strait Islander woman works tirelessly in a laundromat loading machines and folding washing, ready for the collection of her boss.
When a mysterious visitor arrives, Martha is reminded of the life she has left…
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Leonie Kelly
On the cusp of his initiation, a young Aboriginal boy, Mungo, has a chance encounter with James Ashton and his travelling circus in 1853.
Mungo is instantly spellbound by the magic of the circus, but is torn between the two worlds.
Does he do…
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Rhys Graham, Natasha Gadd
Murundak - Songs of freedom is a feature documentary that journeys into the heart of Aboriginal protest music following The Black Arm Band, a gathering of some of Australia's finest Indigenous musicians, as they take to the road with their songs of…
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Erica Glynn
In an isolated desert community, Della and Alvin are promised under the traditional laws of marriage. Their time has come. They move in together. One house, two swags, a guitar... no idea.
Director's notes
"In making My Bed Your Bed, I set out to…
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Steven McGregor
Aaron and Vinnie Pedersen are two brothers who have been each others shadow. Aaron, 35, has established a successful career as an actor, all the while being responsible for the care of Vinnie, 34, who has mild intellectual disabilities and cerebral…
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Dean Gibson
My Family Matters is a celebration of modern
Aboriginal families, and
the everyday role models that exist within them.
This heart-warming story captures everyday life,
shining a light on ordinary families doing
extraordinary things.
For…
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Trevor Almeida
My Home The Block is an intimate portrait of 83-year-old Aboriginal Elder Joyce Ingram, resident of the first inner-city land grant allocated to the Indigenous people that would become a symbol for Indigenous land rights—the infamous Redfern Block…
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Essie Coffey
My Live As I Live It is Essie's second film which returns to her home in 'Dodge City' fifteen years after her first film, My Survival as an Aboriginal.
Essie and the A-Team are nominating for the local Shire elections. The film incorporates some of…
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Molly Reynolds
Early in 2017, legendary Australian actor David Gulpilil was diagnosed with lung cancer. His doctors estimated six months for him but David, being David, was always likely to defy the odds. And he continues to do so with probably his last great…
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Unknown
My Spirit is Black is a production of the ABC about Matthew Doyle's discovery of his Aboriginality when he was 11. He is a descendant of the Muruwari people from the Lightning Ridge area of NSW and grew up in Southern Sydney on Dharawal land.
This…
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Essie Coffey
My Survival As An Aboriginal rocked Australia and the world with its presentation of atrocities and hardships committed against Aboriginal people.
The movie delves beneath surface appearances to reveal a strong resistance to assimilation and loss…
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Brit Arthur
In December 2005 Britt Arthur heard the news that her Uncle Robert was dead. No-one in the Arthur family had spoken about Robert in the preceding 30 years. He was the black sheep of the family, he would argue, he owed everyone money and before he…
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Ivan Sen
In his astonishing and mesmerising new film, Ivan Sen uses the conventions of the Western and the police procedural in a subtle examination of the social and political context of a small town in the Australian outback.
Aboriginal detective Jay Swan…
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Rachel Perkins
When Aboriginal Detective Jay Swan is assigned to investigate the disappearance of two young men from an outback cattle station, he clashes with local cop Emma James. Together their investigation will uncover a past injustice that threatens the…
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Wayne Blair, Warwick Thornton
A headless corpse is found drifting in the mangroves. The trail leads Detective Swan (a man of few words in a big cowboy hat), who has just arrived in the middle of nowhere, and his young colleague Fran, into the world of narcotics.
In addition,…
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Dylan River
Mystery Road: Origin explores how a tragic death, an epic love, and the brutal reality of life as a police officer straddling two worlds, form the mould out which Detective Jay Swan emerges.
It’s 1999 and the world is on the cusp of a new century.…
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Kimberley West
A story from the Bugarregarre time (the Dreamtime) when the spirit beings came out of the ocean, and woke up the silent, barren land as they moved from Dabberdabbergun in the west to the land of the rising sun, creating life and importantly, water,…
