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Rolf de Heer
Written by Rolf de Heer and David Gulpilil as a collaborative project, Charlie's Country stars Gulpilil as blackfella Charlie, who is getting older, and is out of sorts.
Gulpilil appears in every scene in a film that starts on a light note when…
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Anita Heiss
Checkerboard Love is a short film about an mixed-race couple whose parents will meet for the first time; and it's more stressful than usual.
Should they keep their Aboriginal decoration or replace it with "traditional white" icons?
Will this…
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Alana Hicks
All Barbara wants to do is watch the Simpsons, but her mum has just been overcharged for a chicken at her local store and has to enlist the help of her much more street-wise daughter to sort it out.
The film deals with themes of racism and…
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Wayne Blair, Leah Purcell
Cleverman follows a group of non-humans who are battling for survival in a world where humans feel increasingly inferior and want to silence, exploit and kill them.
At the heart of the story are two estranged brothers, Koen and Waruu West, who are…
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Wayne Blair, Leah Purcell
Set in the future, Cleverman features powerful characters from ancient Aboriginal mythology, the Hairy people, who must battle daily to survive in a world that seeks to silence and destroy them.
As season two begins, the Zone has been razed to the…
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Hunter Page-Lochard, Carter Fred Simpkin
A short dramatic thriller about a young couple who carelessly drive down a dirt road in the middle of the bush, their paranoia letting them crash their car. To their horror they discover that their young female toddler is missing.They decide to…
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Steven McGregor
“You can pick your mates but you can’t pick your family.”
Cold Turkey explores the relationship of two brothers against a back drop of manipulative mind games.
Shane and Robby are Aboriginal brothers living in Alice Springs. Robby is leaving for a…
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Lynette Wallworth
Collisions focus is Aboriginal elder Nyarri Nyarri Morgan’s first contact with Europeans while he was observing one of the Maralinga atomic tests.
Set in the Western Desert, the film contains elements of tragedy, travel blog and nature story.
It…
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Sally Riley
In Perth, there is a bronze statue of the Noongar resistance fighter Yagan, whose head was sent to England after he was killed by white settlers, in 1833.
In 1997, his head was repatriated to Australia; soon after, a vandal used an angle grinder to…
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Francis Jupurrurla Kelly, David Batty
More than 80 years after the brutal slaughter of 100 or more Aboriginal people in Central Australia, survivors and their descendants tell their story in Coniston.
Known as “the Coniston Massacres”, the punitive expeditions that set out in August…
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Tyson Mowarin
Australia is home to the world’s oldest continuous culture. A culture whose sacred sites are older than any of the worlds most famous monuments. Stonehenge, the Pyramids and the Great Wall of China are comparatively recent compared to the rock art…
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Martin Butler, Bentley Dean
While the British and Australian governments were trying to test space rockets, members of the nomadic Indigenous population in the Great Sandy Desert, south of Broome (Western Australia) were still living off the land, surviving in extreme…
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Jake Duczynski
Cooked is a five-part animated comedy about the ghost of Captain Cook and his friend Daringa the goat.
The Endeavour has been sitting motionless, shackled to the docks of Darling Harbour. But in 2020 the prime minister announced that she will once…
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Roger Scholes
This hour-long documentary gives an astonishing insight into the life of an East Perth dance club—the Coolbaroo Club—run by the Nyoongar Aboriginal community and for all Aboriginal people and their (few) white supporters between 1946 and 1960.
The…
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Erica Glynn, Steven McGregor
Copping It Black follows detective Toni Alma, who is assigned to investigate a suspicious car accident in Perdar Theendar, the Aboriginal community she left as a child and has had little to do with over the years.
Clues will lead back to her own…
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Peter Pecotić, Joseph Williams
Countryman is a fascinating exploration of identity, environment, and reconciliation.
Two friends attempt to trace the broken song lines of their forefathers triggering an unexpected chain of events.
A Croatian man heads into the Australian…
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Debbie Carmody
Courting with Justice tells the story of a former Norseman pub manager who is charged with the manslaughter of Kevin Rule, a member of the Aboriginal Ngadju Nation, but later found not guilty.
The dead man's partner, Daniella Borg, feels the…
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Darlene Johnson
Crocodile Dreaming is a film which tells a traditional Aboriginal story, similar to Ten Canoes. A stone holding the stories and songs of the ancestors has been stolen from its proper location and subsequently causes the death of two children. It…
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Steven McGregor
1941, all white women and children are evacuated from Darwin. Japanese invasion is imminent. On Croker Island in the Arafura Sea, Methodist missionaries are responsible for 95 Aboriginal "half-caste" children. How could they abandon these kids the…
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Various directors
Crossing Tracks is a compilation of three half-hour films by Aboriginal directors.
Saturday Night, Sunday Morning
Director: Rima Tamou, 27 min
Based on the Archie Weller short story, Saturday Night, Sunday Morning takes us on a journey into the…
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Jeni Kendell
For the first 70 years of this century, tens of thousands of Aboriginal babies and children were taken from their mothers and families by government officials and placed into institutions and foster homes. Cut off from their own people, language and…
