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A$3,511,649. 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 ...
“Ten Canoes,” the 10th feature by Mr. de Heer, a Dutch-born Australian filmmaker, is a close collaboration between him and the Ramingining Aboriginal people, many of whom appear in the movie.
Ten Canoes also shows the large and important role of sorcery in the lives of Aboriginal communities. Strangers can bring bad spirits with them and that is why they are usually shunned. The sorcerer (Philip Gudthaykudthay) in Minygululu's story lives alone and conjures up powerful medicine with his fear-based ideas.
Ten Canoes. Presenting a tale within a tale, this Australian film follows Dayindi (Jamie Gulpilil), a young aboriginal warrior, as he wanders the wilderness hunting for eggs. Dayindi hears a story ...
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- Rolf de Heer, Peter Djigirr
- Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Jun 29, 2006 · Ten Canoes: Directed by Rolf de Heer, Peter Djigirr. With Crusoe Kurddal, Jamie Gulpilil, Richard Birrinbirrin, Peter Minygululu. In Australia's Northern Territory, a man tells us a story of his people and his land.
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- Rolf de Heer, Peter Djigirr
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Nov 5, 2006 · Ten Canoes (Rolf de Heer, 2006) is Australia’s most ambitious and most expensive cross-cultural film project to date.The Balanda and the Bark Canoes (Molly Reynolds, Tania Nehme and Rolf de Heer, 2006) that takes us behind the scenes of this film to provide invaluable insight into the extraordinary processes of collaboration between Balanda (“white-fella”), director Rolf de Heer and the ...
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Post-Ten Canoes, the creation of community based projects Eleven Canoes, Twelve Canoes and so on up to Eighteen Canoes, is testament to the power of storytelling.
