Ten Canoes (2006)

Directed by

Rolf de Heer

Genre

adventure film

Country

Australia

Runtime

1h 32m

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 75 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Ten Canoes is an Australian film set in northern Australia before Western arrival. A narrator tells a moral story about ten men who go hunting for goose eggs in canoes.

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What happens

Ten Canoes is a 2006 Australian historical drama/docudrama film directed by Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr and starring Crusoe Kurddal. The film is set in Arnhem Land in northern Australia, before Western influence, and tells the story of a group of ten men doing traditional hunting in canoes. A narrator tells the story, and the overall format is that of a moral tale. It was Australia's submission to the 79th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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