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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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Bill Code
The Lake of Scars is a feature-length documentary produced on Dja Dja Wurrung country, with members of the Yung Balug clan, in the Australian state of Victoria.
It is a story of allyship and reconciliation at a place unlike anywhere else…
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Brenda Matthews, Nathaniel Schmidt
A poignant documentary co-directed by and featuring Wiradjuri woman Brenda Matthews on a journey to find her white family – and uncover the truth about her abduction.
As a child, Brenda was handed over to a white family to be raised, before…
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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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Gary Hamaguchi
The Lost Crystal of Jessica's Room follows two children who play a game where they use a treasure map to find a crystal in their backyard – but the crystal is not what is seems.
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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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Jon Bell
The Moogai is a psychological horror about a young mother, Sarah, who becomes terrorised by a malevolent spirit she believes is trying to take her children.
Sarah’s husband Fergus desperately wants to believe her but as she becomes more unstable,…
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Jon Bell
Sarah and Fergus, a young First Nations couple, have just had their first child, but what should be one of the happiest times in their lives turns to terror.
The Moogai comes into Sarah’s life after she suffers cardiac shock during the birth of her…
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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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Warwick Thornton
Set in 1940s Australia, The New Boy is the story of a nine-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery, run by a renegade nun, where his presence disturbs the delicately balanced world in this story of…
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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…
