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Romaine Moreton
Olivia works on a farm picking beans. But she also has a special relationship to the past and its people.
Taking a dip she sees a white woman and a black man floating by. Their hands touch—a vision? A memory?
Names of old bean pickers she finds…
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Larissa Behrendt
The Fight Together documents how a group of NRL greats comes together to invent a new pre-game ceremony in response to the Maori Haka, that could celebrate Aboriginal cultures and help to counter racism in rugby league. Their goal is to use the…
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Larissa Behrendt
The First Inventors explores the development of sophisticated art, stone tools, irrigation and agriculture in Australia between 70,000 and 120,000 years ago.
Tens of thousands of years before Mesopotamia and the ancient Greeks, Australia's First…
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Glen Stasiuk
The Forgotten examines the prejudice faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait soldiers in the armed forces and the honour they felt representing their nation. It is also a work that explains what prompted Indigenous people to risk their lives fighting…
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Adrian Wills, Catriona McKenzie, Wayne Blair
The Gods of Wheat Street is a television drama series that transports you into the world, hearts and humour of a modern Aboriginal family of local legends.
Head of the family before his time, Odin Freeburn is being pulled in all directions. As a…
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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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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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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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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 Matt desperately wants to believe her but as she becomes more unstable,…
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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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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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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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Catriona McKenzie
A blind woman and her neighbour discover a common bond after battling each other with sound. What starts as a war ends as an understanding.
Thanks to Anthony Linden Jones for pointing me to this film.
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Warwick Thornton
Big World is one of the films in the anthology cinema event The Turning based on Tim Winton's acclaimed collection of short stories.
After flunking their exams and finishing high school, disillusioned best friends Lenny and Biggie flee up the…
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Kelli Cross
Jason's mother sends the 13-year-old on a vacation to his grandfather, the only role model for the boy she can think of.
Jason is very reluctant to part from his iPod and rap music, but eventually agrees to go on a fishing trip which will change…