Directed by: Phillip Noyce
Staring: Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, Ningali Lawford
A profound, moving tale set in the 1930’s about aboriginal displacement, concentrating on the extraordinary real-life case of three Aboriginal girls who were, as a result of government policy, taken 1000’s of miles from their homes to an orphanage to be trained to work in domestic service in white households and have the aborigine bred out of them. Noyce imbues a simple, true story with the force of anger and emotion. It’s impossible not to be moved as the three young girls make their break for freedom and set off on foot for home with only the fence to guide them. Well acted, evocatively scored by Peter Gabriel, and with Christopher Doyle’s photography, the girls’ odyssey is rendered as a stark, elemental trek across a vast horizon.