Warwick Thornton Movies

13 short films showcasing indigenous filmmakers from around Australia.

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...

A David and Goliath story of a small Aboriginal community in Australia and their successful struggle to stop uranium mining on their land.

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

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

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

54 years after being stolen from her traditional Aboriginal family under Australian Government policy, Zita Wallace is coming home. Guided by her...

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

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...

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...

Meth Kelly explores how Australia’s colonial frontier narrative has been shaped by the imaginary heroic actions of the cult figure Ned Kelly....

WILLIGAN'S FITZROY takes us to the small Aboriginal community of Fitzroy Crossing in Western Australia. Through the eyes of the local Aboriginal...

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