Yolngu Boy (2001)

Directed by

Stephen Johnson

Genre

drama film

Country

Australia

Runtime

1h 28m

Rated

M

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three Aboriginal teenage boys in a remote Australian community share a dream of becoming great hunters. Their journey shows them caught between traditional culture and modern influences like hip hop and football.

coming-of-ageculturalpoignantearnestbittersweetslow-pacedgroundedreflective

What happens

Yolngu Boy is a 2001 Australian coming-of-age film directed by Stephen Maxwell Johnson, produced by Patricia Edgar, Gordon Glenn, Galarrwuy Yunupingu and Mandawuy Yunupingu, and starring Sean Mununggurr, John Sebastian Pilakui, and Nathan Daniels. Yolngu Boy is based around three Aboriginal teenage boys linked by ceremony, kinship and a common dream-to become great Yolngu hunters, in a remote community at Yirrkala in North-East Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. The feature film traces the metaphorical journey of the three young Aboriginal teenagers caught in a collision between the modern world and traditional Aboriginal culture where they hunt wild animals in the morning using spears and play football while listening to hip hop rap music in the afternoon. The project involved a significant number of community members in the cast and crew of the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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