Dir: Charles Chauvel
Australia 1955 85mins Restored 35mm
Jedda, an orphaned Aboriginal girl raised on a cattle station by a white woman who has lost her own child, is brought up knowing nothing of her own culture or customs. As a young woman she becomes fascinated by Marbuck, a young indigenous man still living traditionally on the land. Marbuck abducts Jedda, sparking a pursuit through the countryside that ultimately ends in tragedy. The first Australian feature to be filmed in colour, this classic melodrama was a major critical and commercial success at the time of its release.

Preceded by Tracey Moffatt short Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy (1990)

Dir: Fred Schepisi
Australia 1978 120mins 35mm
At the turn of the century, a young Aboriginal man Jimmie Blacksmith is driven to an act of shocking violence by the extreme cruelty and alienation he is forced to endure at the hands of a white landowner and his family. Based on the Thomas Keneally novel, this complex study of the issues behind prejudice and assimilation in Australia remains potent to this day. Stars Tommy Lewis, Ray Barrett, Jack Thompson, Angela Punch McGregor and Ruth Cracknell.

Listed in 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

Dir: Nick Parsons
Australia 1996 104mins 35mm
When an indigenous man is found dead in lawman Ray Lorkin's police lock-up in the remote outback town of Wala Wala, Ray turns a blind eye to some pay back justice in an attempt to reconcile Aboriginal traditions and white man’s law. But simmering racial and cultural tensions boil over when a passionate affair in the town results in sacrilege and murder, putting Ray into deadly conflict with old friends. Stars Bryan Brown, Ernie Dingo, John Jarratt and Aaron Pedersen.

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