Contact (2009)

Directed by

Bentley Dean

Genre

documentary film

Country

Australia

Runtime

1h 20m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows 20 Martu people who were the last to meet Europeans in the Great Sandy Desert in 1964. It shows their lives and the changes that came after that contact.

historicalreflectiveslow-burnrespectfulobservationalemotionalpoignantquiet

What happens

Contact is a 2009 Australian documentary film that tells the story of 20 Martu people who in 1964 became the last people in the Great Sandy Desert to have come into contact with Europeans. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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