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Frank Rijavec
The Habits of New Norcia tells the story of the Benedictine Aboriginal Mission at New Norcia, in Western Australia. Now a popular tourist destination north of Perth, the Mission holds harsh memories for the former Aboriginal "inmates" who were…
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Judith MacDougall
When Geraldine Kawanka’s husband died, she and her children moved out of their house. In earlier times their bark house would have been burnt, but today a “house-opening” ceremony has evolved, creatively mingling Aboriginal, Torres Strait and…
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Julie Nimmo
The Intervention: Katherine, NT traces over one year the impact of the emergency intervention which the federal government started in the Northern Territory in 2007 in response to a report about widespread child abuse.
The movie adopts a…
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Jeremy Thomson
The Kimberley Man is a story of Western Australia’s first Aboriginal parliamentarian, Ernie Bridge.
Told from the unique perspective of Ernie’s grandson Jeremy Thomson (who also directs the film) this documentary is a revealing look at Ernie’s…
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Tom Haydon
The Tasmanians were a distinct people, isolated from Australia and the rest of the world for 12,000 years. In 1803, British colonisation began and in 1876, Truganini died. For a long time she was thought to have been the last full-blood and tribal…
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Peter Weir
The Last Wave tells the story of young tax lawyer, David Burton, who takes on the defence of five city Aboriginal people who seem to have killed one of their own under tribal law - but as the government doesn't acknowledge that there are tribes in…
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Aleski Vellis
In this lighthearted Australian comedy-thriller, an Aboriginal man becomes a detective after his beloved VW Kombi van is stolen.
Harry Dare, after a troubled youth during which his father mysteriously disappeared, is seen as a young married man…
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Carl T. Woods
When an ancient Aboriginal burial ground is desecrated, a vengeful spirit from the Dreaming is released, causing supernatural mayhem.
Min-min lights (named after an Aboriginal term) are mysterious lights in Australia’s Outback which appear…
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Tim Burstall
Based on a novel by Morris West, The Naked Country is a classic American cowboy tale set in Australia's exotic outback, with the Aboriginal people pitted against a rancher, Lance Dillon because he is on their land.
After a renegade Aboriginal man,…
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Jennifer Kent
The Nightingale is a brutally honest film showing the horrors of Australian invasion, set at the turn of the 19th century.The film follows Clare, a 21-year-old native Irish wife and mother held captive beyond her 7-year sentence, desperate to be…
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Warwick Thornton
This beautiful documentary is a character study of an old man named Norman Hayes Jagamarra who gave up droving and came to Coober Pedy decades ago to work as an opal-miner.
Norman is a “noodler” – someone who sifts through the mining scrap-heaps…
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Daniel King
The Opportunists is a comedy about the wheelings and dealings of the Aboriginal art industry. One painting, two mates, four thugs, one dodgy art dealer and two words: The Opportunists.
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Allan Collins ACS, Edoardo Crismani
Filmmaker Edoardo Crismani and his mother Barbara embark on a search to unravel the mystery surrounding Barbara’s father, Joe Murray, an Aboriginal boxing champion known as “The Black Panther” who danced and sang in vaudeville shows, and married a…
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Michelle Blanchard
A little girl observes how her mother reads a letter and cries. She's determined not to make this happen again.
Eagerly she waits for the mailman to pass by. Then she collects all the letters of the neighbourhood she can get hold of and stashes…
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Thibul Nettle
Thomas an Aboriginal man is arrested and held in a local town jail holding cell as he awaits trial accused of double murder.While he waits in the cell he is visited by a big shot cop Joe Marshall who takes Thomas to the crime scene in hopes to help…
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Darlene Johnson
In the early '70s, Aboriginal political activism took to the stage with Australia's first all-Aboriginal theatre company, the National Black Theatre in inner-city Redfern.
Against the backdrop of street protests, a group of actors and activists…
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Jeff Licence
Upon becoming a father, award-winning author Benjamin Allmon realised he knew nothing of the indigenous history of his home, the land of the Saltwater People, to teach his son. So he embarked on a voyage of discovery that led him further than he…
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Wayne Blair
The Sapphires is set in 1969 and tells the story of the McCrae sisters, four Aboriginal singers from country Victoria whose biggest dream is to become as famous as their Motown idols.
The film is an adaptation of the stage musical, when four…
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Alan Lowery
The secret history of Australia is a historical conspiracy of silence. Written history has long applied selectivity to what it records, largely ignoring the shameful way that Aboriginal people were, and continue to be, treated.
Because Aboriginal…
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Daina Reid
Based on Kate Grenville’s novel, the two-part drama tells the deeply personal story of Will and Sal Thornhill, early convict colonists who lay claim to a plot of land on the then remote Hawkesbury River.
Will arrives in penal New South Wales and is…
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Naina Sen
Central Australia’s answer to The Buena Vista Social Club, The Song Keepers tells the uplifting story of women from the world’s oldest culture preserving some of the world’s oldest sacred songs, connecting Germany to Aboriginal history in the…