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In Australia's Northern Territory, a man tells us a story of his people and his land. It's about an older man, Minygululu, who has three wives and realizes that his younger brother Dayindi may try to steal away the youngest wife.

Der Film spielt auf einer fernen, von Regenwald bedeckten Insel im Pazifik, die von einem aktiven Vulkan beherrscht wird. Er erzählt eine vom Stamm der Yakel gespielte Geschichte über die Loyalität einer Schwester, eine verbotene Liebesbeziehung und den Pakt zwischen der alten und neuen Lebensweise.

In the Australian Outback, two estranged brothers discover old secrets and family lies. As their friends start to go missing they fear they are being stalked by someone or something.

Displeased with the intervention of whitefella laws, Charlie takes off to live the old way and sets off a chain reaction of enlightening difficulties.

After the uprising at Wushe, Mona Rudao faces a guerrilla war against the militarily superior Japanese and Seediq clans. He and his followers must fight for their dignity and honor so that they can truly be "Seediq Bale" or "real men."

When a couple of low life thugs get away from a heist they just pulled they never think about the outcome after stashing there money in the woods only to find a woodsman who will do anything to kill and disappear into the night.

In the midst of Mozambique's devastating civil war, Muidinga, an orphaned refugee, wanders the countryside in search of his mother. His only companion is an elderly storyteller, and the only guide to finding his mother is a dead man's diary. This transporting drama underscores the power of imagination in surviving, and ultimately overcoming, the catastrophe of war.

The story of a father's desperate struggle to reunite his estranged family over the course of a single afternoon.

Makula believed she had found true love, but her dream marriage turns into a nightmare when she uncovers a horrifying secret; her husband is at the heart of a sex slavery and organ trafficking ring.

Icaros explores the spiritual universe of the Shipibo indigenous people who live by the Ucayali river, one of the main tributaries of the Peruvian Amazon. Young Mokan Rono sets outs on a journey to discover the ancestral knowledge of ayahuasca, mentored by a wise shaman and by his mother, a master healer.

Audrey Napanangka tells the story of Warlpiri matriarch Audrey, who was born at a time when the world was changing forever for people of the central Australian desert. Colonial settlements, relocation, displacement, and the forced removal of children as two worlds fused, ended in tragedy for Audrey and her young family. Despite this, she had a happy childhood which gave her the resilience to be the woman she is today. With her Sicilian partner, Santo, Audrey uses her deep cultural knowledge to enrich the lives of others, and particularly her foster children, as she also gives them the skills for navigating the complex modern world. Audrey lives in Alice Springs in the center of Australia, hundreds of kilometers from her Country, the land of her forbears for thousands of years, where she was born and she grew up, south of the Tanami Desert. She keeps a precarious balance between two worlds, the ancient desert law of the Warlpiri nation, and the modern-day town of Alice Springs. She has been with Santo for over 30 years and together they have provided a safe home for many Warlpiri children who have needed one. In her 70s now, Audrey is an elder with a big extended Warlpiri family, who live between Alice Springs and small townships and communities hundreds of kilometers from Alice Springs. She looks after her family and has many obligations to fulfill. As one of the few family members with a house in Alice Springs she and Santo are called upon for support when family need to visit town for shopping, hospitals, or court. Audrey has had a lifelong journey of raising children which has had its highs and lows. As a grandmother and great grandmother, together with Santo, she still has teenagers in her care. To Audrey it is important that the children can navigate and thrive in two worlds, that of mainstream Australia, and that they know the language, laws and cultures of their forbears, and their connection to the land and skies of the central desert that is their birth right. Life is not always easy, and we journey with Audrey and her family through the obstacles that they must overcome, as well as the good times. In the end, family and love are everything.

In the stark desert landscape of the Kalahari a troubled police officer battles to keep her small town from being ripped apart by a horrific murder and the ghosts from a colonial past.

Juvenile is about two teenagers lived two different lives in Honiara, Solomon Islands. A film that portrays family, friendship and bad choices that needed a system to help Henry and Jimmy get back on knees.

Luku Ngarra is an unflinching, indigenous Australian Aboriginal funded documentary on the history and culture of Arnhem Land leading up to the present day, seen through the eyes of one of Australia's most respected Indigenous elders and traditional lawmen, the Reverned Doctor Djiniyini Gondarra OAM. Set mainly in the remote community of Elcho Island, the film is a timely challenge to the dominant mainstream paradigm that has failed to recognise the true value and importance of traditional Aboriginal law and culture for the wellbeing of remote communities.

A Shipibo boy is raised by his grandparents in direct contact with the Amazon forest and its inhabitants, whom he respects and considered part of their social environment. Growing up and coming into contact with urban life, the child denies his culture to avoid the discrimination, but, in the end, his vital roots lead him to reconnect with the forest and to reconcile with his ancient traditions.

Native Taiwanese, from the ethnic group Atayal, Protest against the claims of the central government - made up of Chinese immigrants from the ethnic group Han, who are now most of the population - build a bridge through their old village. The documentary cue interweaves with the fiction story of two Atalayal brothers: Taqun is the minority delegate in the central government, Yukan works for a construction company which is now demolishing some scruffy buildings. When Taqun is injured by a drunk driver who has run over him, Yukan leaves for a trip in search of his origins.

In the heart of the Darien forest, newly elected Embera indigenous governor Morelia must confront both male resistance to her leadership and the haunting echoes of her past.

Docu-drama outlining the culture clash in law between indigenous Australians and white European settled Australia.

4 young women , goaded one minute and encouraged the next by an androgynous MC , take over a night club to tell the story of Sonia and Max . Sonia, the group's lead singer is trapped in an abusive relationship with Max. Through song and dramatic reconstruction of moments in their life, she attempts to find freedom. Originally a very popular stage production, Laef I Swit is Vanuatu's first full length film musical. Performed by members of Wan Smolbag Theatre, the only professional theatre and filmmaking troupe in Melanesia.

A documentary looking at one of Australia's biggest and deadliest killers - suicide.

My Legacy follows Helen as she explores the often tenuous relationship between a mother and daughter made more complex by the legacy of residential school.