Warwick Thornton Movies

Paddy finds there are two separate laws, the white and the black.

A white collector of Aboriginal art gets a shock when the Mimi sculpture she purchased comes to life.

Fifty years ago an Indigenous Classical Orchestra was formed at the Derby Leprosarium, Playing Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and even Handel. This...

'Here I Am' is driven by three generations of Aboriginal women - Karen Lee Burden, her mother Lois and her daughter Rosie. When Karen is released...

1910 Swedish scientist, Eric Mjoberg, led an expedition to Australia. DARK SCIENCE travels in Mjoberg's footsteps to visit the communities he robbed,...

When eldest sister Cressy, middle daughter Mae and the young Nona are reunited for the first time in years it doesn’t take long for the sparks...

This short romantic drama from Erica Glynn uses the power of silence to communicate the tension between two characters who have been promised to each...

Buried Country was a cross-media juggernaut – book, film, CD – that first came out in 2000. The book was published by Pluto Press,...

We meet Warumungu elder Leslie Foster, senior Traditional Owner of country around this famous phenomenon south of Tennant Creek in Central Australia....

A Japanese tourist enjoying a relaxed car journey through the beauty and tranquility of the Australian desert collides with a violent moment in time....

A young Aboriginal oyster farmer meets an aerial artist when the circus comes to town and must decide whether he will follow in his family footsteps...

They were Australia’s bad days. Men killed other men and laughed. All that was left for the children of the dead was to remember. If they had...

This documentary focuses on the sacred sites in and around Mparntwe (Alice Springs) in central Australia, and the struggle of the Arrernte people to...

Fresh out of the academy, White Cop experiences his first taste of Aboriginal community life, as Black Cop puts him to the test.

In these fast and modern times, the Numurindi people are still guided by the seasons and stories of the Dreamtime. This observational documentary...

MARLUKU WIRLINYI is a tale of kangaroo hunting that weaves its way through Dreamtime, to the present and back again. A group of old Warlpiri men...

An old woman, overseeing her granddaughter making some damper, is asked how she came to be betrothed or “promised” at a young age.

Burning Daylight is a dance/film project. The performance is set from late one night until dawn in a transit zone outside a notorious pub on a...