Rolf de Heer

Rolf de Heer

Rolf de Heer (born 4 May 1951; Heemskerk, North Holland) is a Australian film director. De Heer was born in Heemskerk in the Netherlands but migrated to Sydney when he was eight years old. He attended the Australian Film, Television and Radio School in Sydney. His company is called Vertigo Productions and is based in Adelaide. De Heer primarily makes alternative or arthouse films. According to the jacket notes of the videotape, de Heer holds the honor of co-producing and directing the only motion picture, Dingo, in which the jazz legend Miles Davis appears as an actor. Miles Davis collaborated with Michel Legrand on the score. He is the subject of the book Dutch Tilt, Aussie Auteur: The Films of Rolf de Heer (First edition – Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM, 2009. Second edition – Ebook: Starrs via Smashwords.com, 2013) by Dr D. Bruno Starrs. A comprehensive study of his films to date, Dancing to His Song: the Singular Cinema of Rolf de Heer by film critic Jane Freebury, is published in ebook and print (Currency Press & Currency House, 2015).

  • Title: Rolf de Heer
  • Popularity: 2.128
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1951-05-04
  • Place of Birth: Heemskerk, The Netherlands
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  • Also Known As: Рольф де Хир, 롤프 드 히어, 롤프 드 헤르
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Rolf de Heer Movies

  • 2006
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    The Balanda and the Bark Canoes

    The Balanda and the Bark Canoes

    1 2006 HD

    A documentary about making the feature film "Ten Canoes". It is May, 2005 in Central Arnhem Land: 'We are making a movie. The story is their story,...

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  • 2007
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    Dr. Plonk

    Dr. Plonk

    5.9 2007 HD

    A scientist & inventor in 1907, Dr Plonk, predicts that the world will end in 101 years, unless something is done about it.

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  • 2002
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    The Tracker

    The Tracker

    6.7 2002 HD

    Somewhere in Australia in the early 20th century outback, an Aboriginal man is accused of murdering a white woman. Three white men are on a mission...

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  • 2002
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    The Tracker

    The Tracker

    6.7 2002 HD

    Somewhere in Australia in the early 20th century outback, an Aboriginal man is accused of murdering a white woman. Three white men are on a mission...

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  • 2003
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    Alexandra's Project

    Alexandra's Project

    5.9 2003 HD

    Steve is a man who has it all, a successful career, wonderful children, beautiful home and a loving wife. However, returning to his home after work...

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  • 2003
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    Alexandra's Project

    Alexandra's Project

    5.9 2003 HD

    Steve is a man who has it all, a successful career, wonderful children, beautiful home and a loving wife. However, returning to his home after work...

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  • 2003
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    Alexandra's Project

    Alexandra's Project

    5.9 2003 HD

    Steve is a man who has it all, a successful career, wonderful children, beautiful home and a loving wife. However, returning to his home after work...

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  • 1993
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    Bad Boy Bubby

    Bad Boy Bubby

    7 1993 HD

    Bad Boy Bubby is just that: a bad boy. So bad, in fact, that his mother has kept him locked in their house for his entire thirty years, convincing...

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  • 1993
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    Bad Boy Bubby

    Bad Boy Bubby

    7 1993 HD

    Bad Boy Bubby is just that: a bad boy. So bad, in fact, that his mother has kept him locked in their house for his entire thirty years, convincing...

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  • 1993
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    Bad Boy Bubby

    Bad Boy Bubby

    7 1993 HD

    Bad Boy Bubby is just that: a bad boy. So bad, in fact, that his mother has kept him locked in their house for his entire thirty years, convincing...

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  • 2006
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    Ten Canoes

    Ten Canoes

    6.7 2006 HD

    A story within a story within a story. In Australia's Northern Territory, an Aboriginal narrator tells a story about his ancestors on a goose hunt. A...

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  • 2006
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    Ten Canoes

    Ten Canoes

    6.7 2006 HD

    A story within a story within a story. In Australia's Northern Territory, an Aboriginal narrator tells a story about his ancestors on a goose hunt. A...

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  • 1991
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    Dingo

    Dingo

    5.7 1991 HD

    Young John Anderson is captivated by jazz musician, Billy Cross when he performs on the remote airstrip of his Western Australian outback hometown...

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  • 2001
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    The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

    The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

    6.2 2001 HD

    A man is forced to confront a dangerous female jaguar and his own past through the sacrificial killing of the beast he has grown to love.

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  • 2001
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    The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

    The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

    6.2 2001 HD

    A man is forced to confront a dangerous female jaguar and his own past through the sacrificial killing of the beast he has grown to love.

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  • 1997
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    Alien Visitor

    Alien Visitor

    5.7 1997 HD

    In this sci-fi adventure a gorgeous alien woman is sent to Earth by mistake from the planet Epsilon. Landing in the Australian outback she meets a...

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  • 1997
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    Alien Visitor

    Alien Visitor

    5.7 1997 HD

    In this sci-fi adventure a gorgeous alien woman is sent to Earth by mistake from the planet Epsilon. Landing in the Australian outback she meets a...

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  • 1997
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    Alien Visitor

    Alien Visitor

    5.7 1997 HD

    In this sci-fi adventure a gorgeous alien woman is sent to Earth by mistake from the planet Epsilon. Landing in the Australian outback she meets a...

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  • 2012
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    The King Is Dead!

    The King Is Dead!

    5.5 2012 HD

    A happy, unsuspecting couple, Max (Dan Wyllie) and Therese (Bojana Novakovic), buy a house in what appears to be a quiet, friendly neighbourhood....

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  • 1996
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    The Quiet Room

    The Quiet Room

    5.7 1996 HD

    A seven-year-old girl adopts a vow of silence in protest when her quarrelsome parents grow increasingly hostile to one another.

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  • 1989
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    Incident at Raven's Gate

    Incident at Raven's Gate

    5.6 1989 HD

    Ex-con Eddie Cleary gets a job working on his older brother's isolated farm. It's not long before bizarre things start happening--dead birds falling...

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  • 1989
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    Incident at Raven's Gate

    Incident at Raven's Gate

    5.6 1989 HD

    Ex-con Eddie Cleary gets a job working on his older brother's isolated farm. It's not long before bizarre things start happening--dead birds falling...

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  • 1998
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    Dance Me to My Song

    Dance Me to My Song

    6.2 1998 HD

    The story of Julia, a disabled woman in a wheelchair and voice synthesizer, who's trapped psychologically by a cruel, manipulative caregiver. After...

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  • 1998
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    Dance Me to My Song

    Dance Me to My Song

    6.2 1998 HD

    The story of Julia, a disabled woman in a wheelchair and voice synthesizer, who's trapped psychologically by a cruel, manipulative caregiver. After...

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  • 1998
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    Dance Me to My Song

    Dance Me to My Song

    6.2 1998 HD

    The story of Julia, a disabled woman in a wheelchair and voice synthesizer, who's trapped psychologically by a cruel, manipulative caregiver. After...

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  • 2012
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    The King Is Dead!

    The King Is Dead!

    5.5 2012 HD

    A happy, unsuspecting couple, Max (Dan Wyllie) and Therese (Bojana Novakovic), buy a house in what appears to be a quiet, friendly neighbourhood....

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  • 2012
    imgMovies

    The King Is Dead!

    The King Is Dead!

    5.5 2012 HD

    A happy, unsuspecting couple, Max (Dan Wyllie) and Therese (Bojana Novakovic), buy a house in what appears to be a quiet, friendly neighbourhood....

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  • 1989
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    Incident at Raven's Gate

    Incident at Raven's Gate

    5.6 1989 HD

    Ex-con Eddie Cleary gets a job working on his older brother's isolated farm. It's not long before bizarre things start happening--dead birds falling...

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  • 2013
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    Charlie's Country

    Charlie's Country

    7.094 2013 HD

    Blackfella Charlie is getting older, and he's out of sorts. The intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the...

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  • 2013
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    Charlie's Country

    Charlie's Country

    7.094 2013 HD

    Blackfella Charlie is getting older, and he's out of sorts. The intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the...

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  • 2015
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    Another Country

    Another Country

    5.8 2015 HD

    In this documentary companion to CHARLIE'S COUNTRY, Australian actor David Gulpilil tells the story of when his people's way of life was derailed by...

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  • 2009
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    Twelve Canoes

    Twelve Canoes

    1 2009 HD

    "Twelve Canoes" is a series of short films that paint a compelling portrait of the people, history, culture and place of the Yolngu people whose...

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  • 1984
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    Tale of a Tiger

    Tale of a Tiger

    6 1984 HD

    Primary school aged Orville has a fascination for model planes which intensifies when he encounters Harry who owns a sadly neglected but real Tiger...

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  • 1984
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    Tale of a Tiger

    Tale of a Tiger

    6 1984 HD

    Primary school aged Orville has a fascination for model planes which intensifies when he encounters Harry who owns a sadly neglected but real Tiger...

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  • 1983
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    Gary's Story

    Gary's Story

    1 1983 HD

    A story of transition: from lust to compassion, compassion to escape and escape to Sydney. Truth plays a very small part.

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  • 2006
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    The Balanda and the Bark Canoes

    The Balanda and the Bark Canoes

    1 2006 HD

    A documentary about making the feature film "Ten Canoes". It is May, 2005 in Central Arnhem Land: 'We are making a movie. The story is their story,...

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  • 2023
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    The Survival of Kindness

    The Survival of Kindness

    6.9 2023 HD

    In a cage on a trailer in the middle of the desert, BlackWoman is abandoned, left to die. But BlackWoman seems not ready. She escapes, journeying...

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  • 2023
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    The Survival of Kindness

    The Survival of Kindness

    6.9 2023 HD

    In a cage on a trailer in the middle of the desert, BlackWoman is abandoned, left to die. But BlackWoman seems not ready. She escapes, journeying...

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  • 2023
    imgMovies

    The Survival of Kindness

    The Survival of Kindness

    6.9 2023 HD

    In a cage on a trailer in the middle of the desert, BlackWoman is abandoned, left to die. But BlackWoman seems not ready. She escapes, journeying...

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  • 2006
    imgMovies

    Ten Canoes

    Ten Canoes

    6.7 2006 HD

    A story within a story within a story. In Australia's Northern Territory, an Aboriginal narrator tells a story about his ancestors on a goose hunt. A...

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  • 2014
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    Still Our Country

    Still Our Country

    1 2014 HD

    ­A poetic celebration of country and culture, Still Our Country documents the swiftly changing lives of the Yolngu people of Ramingining in the...

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  • 2024
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    A Portrait of Love

    A Portrait of Love

    1 2024 HD

    A joyful celebration of the life and loss of Archibald award-winning artist Craig Ruddy, told through the eyes of his loving partner of twenty years....

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  • 1986
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    Thank You Jack

    Thank You Jack

    1 1986 HD

    Karl is a cheerful and endearing 8-year-old, in spite of being terminally ill with a rare neuro-muscular disease. His single mother Judy tries to...

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  • 1996
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    The Quiet Room

    The Quiet Room

    5.7 1996 HD

    A seven-year-old girl adopts a vow of silence in protest when her quarrelsome parents grow increasingly hostile to one another.

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  • 1978
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    The Colonel

    The Colonel

    1 1978 HD

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  • 1986
    imgMovies

    Thank You Jack

    Thank You Jack

    1 1986 HD

    Karl is a cheerful and endearing 8-year-old, in spite of being terminally ill with a rare neuro-muscular disease. His single mother Judy tries to...

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  • 1978
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    The Colonel

    The Colonel

    1 1978 HD

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  • 1999
    imgMovies

    Spank!

    Spank!

    2 1999 HD

    Paulie returns to his hometown of Adelaide after spending three years in a monastery. Upon returning home, he finds his buddies have not grown up....

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  • 2018
    imgMovies

    The Waiting Room

    The Waiting Room

    1 2018 HD

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  • 2009
    imgMovies

    Twelve Canoes

    Twelve Canoes

    1 2009 HD

    "Twelve Canoes" is a series of short films that paint a compelling portrait of the people, history, culture and place of the Yolngu people whose...

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  • 2002
    imgMovies

    The Tracker

    The Tracker

    6.7 2002 HD

    Somewhere in Australia in the early 20th century outback, an Aboriginal man is accused of murdering a white woman. Three white men are on a mission...

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  • 1998
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    Three Forever

    Three Forever

    1 1998 HD

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  • 1979
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    The Audition

    The Audition

    1 1979 HD

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  • 1985
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    Best Enemies

    Best Enemies

    1 1985 HD

    Niel longs for his older second cousin Patricia, but can't help but be drawn to the emotionally unstable Fennimore, an on-again off-again lover of...

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  • 1979
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    The Audition

    The Audition

    1 1979 HD

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  • 2009
    imgMovies

    Twelve Canoes

    Twelve Canoes

    1 2009 HD

    "Twelve Canoes" is a series of short films that paint a compelling portrait of the people, history, culture and place of the Yolngu people whose...

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  • 1980
    imgMovies

    Tread Softly

    Tread Softly

    1 1980 HD

    Story of obsessive love between two women.

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  • 2007
    imgMovies

    Dr. Plonk

    Dr. Plonk

    5.9 2007 HD

    A scientist & inventor in 1907, Dr Plonk, predicts that the world will end in 101 years, unless something is done about it.

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  • 2013
    imgMovies

    Charlie's Country

    Charlie's Country

    7.094 2013 HD

    Blackfella Charlie is getting older, and he's out of sorts. The intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the...

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  • 2001
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    Serenades

    Serenades

    5 2001 HD

    Set in the 1890s in the central desert region of Australia, 'Serenades' tells the tale of Jila who is conceived when her Afghan cameleer father wins...

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  • 2002
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    The Tracker

    The Tracker

    6.7 2002 HD

    Somewhere in Australia in the early 20th century outback, an Aboriginal man is accused of murdering a white woman. Three white men are on a mission...

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  • 2006
    imgMovies

    The Balanda and the Bark Canoes

    The Balanda and the Bark Canoes

    1 2006 HD

    A documentary about making the feature film "Ten Canoes". It is May, 2005 in Central Arnhem Land: 'We are making a movie. The story is their story,...

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  • 2021
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    My Name Is Gulpilil

    My Name Is Gulpilil

    6.2 2021 HD

    Diagnosed with lung cancer, legendary Australian actor David Gulpilil boldly explains the journey that is his extraordinary, culture-clashing life.

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  • 2016
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    In the Same Garden

    In the Same Garden

    1 2016 HD

    We all live on the same planet, under one sun which nurtures and renews our unique and common hopes for the future. No matter how much we differ from...

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  • 1996
    imgMovies

    The Quiet Room

    The Quiet Room

    5.7 1996 HD

    A seven-year-old girl adopts a vow of silence in protest when her quarrelsome parents grow increasingly hostile to one another.

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  • 2006
    imgMovies

    The Balanda and the Bark Canoes

    The Balanda and the Bark Canoes

    1 2006 HD

    A documentary about making the feature film "Ten Canoes". It is May, 2005 in Central Arnhem Land: 'We are making a movie. The story is their story,...

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  • 2020
    imgMovies

    Running With Crutches

    Running With Crutches

    1 2020 HD

    Locked down, shielded and isolated, ShoPaapaa hobbles around his tiny universe. In a monologue that has no audience, he rails against racism and...

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  • 1991
    imgMovies

    Dingo

    Dingo

    5.7 1991 HD

    Young John Anderson is captivated by jazz musician, Billy Cross when he performs on the remote airstrip of his Western Australian outback hometown...

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  • 2007
    imgMovies

    Dr. Plonk

    Dr. Plonk

    5.9 2007 HD

    A scientist & inventor in 1907, Dr Plonk, predicts that the world will end in 101 years, unless something is done about it.

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  • 1979
    imgMovies

    Tasmania's South West: A Wilderness in Question

    Tasmania's South West: A Wilderness in Question

    1 1979 HD

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  • 1978
    imgMovies

    Cass

    Cass

    1 1978 HD

    Torn by the conflict between society and her own life, as well as her failing marriage and love for another woman, Cass desperately tried to pull...

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  • 2017
    imgMovies

    Youth on the March

    Youth on the March

    1 2017 HD

    A teenage boy stoner lives with his single mother.

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  • 2015
    imgMovies

    Another Country

    Another Country

    5.8 2015 HD

    In this documentary companion to CHARLIE'S COUNTRY, Australian actor David Gulpilil tells the story of when his people's way of life was derailed by...

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  • 2021
    imgMovies

    My Name Is Gulpilil

    My Name Is Gulpilil

    6.2 2021 HD

    Diagnosed with lung cancer, legendary Australian actor David Gulpilil boldly explains the journey that is his extraordinary, culture-clashing life.

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  • 2015
    imgMovies

    Picture

    Picture

    8 2015 HD

    In early 2010 the Alloy Orchestra was commissioned an original score, based on a musical setting drawn on a 3-foot long sheet of squared notebook...

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  • 2016
    imgMovies

    In the Same Garden

    In the Same Garden

    1 2016 HD

    We all live on the same planet, under one sun which nurtures and renews our unique and common hopes for the future. No matter how much we differ from...

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  • 1998
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    The Sound of One Hand Clapping

    The Sound of One Hand Clapping

    2.8 1998 HD

    Tasmania, 1954: Slovenian migrant Melita abandons her husband and young daughter, Sonja. Sonja's distraught father perseveres with his new life in a...

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  • 1978
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    Cass

    Cass

    1 1978 HD

    Torn by the conflict between society and her own life, as well as her failing marriage and love for another woman, Cass desperately tried to pull...

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