Spear
Feb 06, 2016 | IMDB 6.5
84 min Watch NowDrama
A young man reconciles ancient tradition with the modern, urban world in this debut feature from Stephen Page, artistic director of Australia’s renowned Bangarra Dance Theatre.
Drama
A young man reconciles ancient tradition with the modern, urban world in this debut feature from Stephen Page, artistic director of Australia’s renowned Bangarra Dance Theatre.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Where the Green Ants Dream
High Ground
Jindabyne
Sweet As
Crocodile Dreaming
The Nightingale
Ten Canoes
Bitter Springs
Terra Nullius
Black Chook
Shadow of the Boomerang
Yolngu Boy
My Colour, Your Kind
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Zombie Brigade
Words with Gods
When Shadows Dance at Night
Ayaan
The Fringe Dwellers
Charlie's Country
SIMILAR MOVIES
Where the Green Ants Dream
IMDB 6.9 | Aug , 1984
The Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are disturbed, it will bring down disaster on us all. The Aborigines' belief is not shared by a giant mining company, which wants to tear open the soil and search for uranium.High Ground
IMDB 6.4 | Feb , 2020
In a remote corner of the wild country, a bloody war rages. Travis is a bounty hunter with one last hope of redemption. Gutjuk is a young Indigenous man trying to save the last of his family. Together they embark on a manhunt, which unravels a secret that ultimately pits them against each other.Jindabyne
IMDB 5.5 | Jul , 2006
Outside the Australian town of Jindabyne, local man Stuart Kane is on a fishing trip with friends when they discover the body of a murdered girl.Sweet As
IMDB 6 | Jun , 2023
With problems on the home front, 15-year-old Murra is on the verge of lashing out. That is, until her policeman uncle thwarts her self-destructive behaviour with a lifeline: a “photo-safari for at-risk kids”. Murra isn’t entirely convinced, but she soon joins cantankerous Kylie, uptight Sean, happy-go-lucky Elvis, and camp counsellors Fernando and Michelle on a transformative bus trip to the Pilbara. On the trail, the teens learn about fun, friendship and first crushes, as well as the forces of ‘reality’ that puncture the bubble of youth.Crocodile Dreaming
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2006
Crocodile Dreaming is a modern day supernatural myth about two estranged brothers, played by iconic Indigenous actors David Gulpill and Tom E. Lewis. Separated at birth, they have different fathers. One is readily accepted as a full-fledged member of the tribe and is looked on to fulfill the duties of jungaiy, an important ceremonial role which obliges him to be caretaker for his mother's dreaming, the crocodile totem. The other, whose father was white, is younger and has had to struggle to fit into the tribe who see him only as a yella fella.The Nightingale
IMDB 7.1 | Sep , 2018
In 1825, Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. She enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.Ten Canoes
IMDB 6.8 | Jun , 2006
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 youngster on the hunt is being tempted to adultery with his elder brother's wife, so an elder tells him a story from the mythical past about how evil can slip in and cause havoc unless prevented by virtue according to customary tribal law.Bitter Springs
IMDB 6.4 | Jul , 1950
A family buy land set around a water hole in a remote location, that is occupied by native Australians. The two groups clash.Terra Nullius
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1992
Loosely based on the filmmaker's personal experience, "Terra Nullius" is an impressionistic account of an eight year old Koori girl, Alice, growing up in a white adoptive family which denies her Aboriginality. The film examines how unacknowledged shame and fear passes from one generation to the next, from one culture to another. The last scene depicts a silent meeting between the young Alice and the adult Alice. In order to reclaim her life, Alice decides she must confront the pain and confusion of her childhood.Black Chook
IMDB 0 | Aug , 2015
They were Australia’s bad days. Men killed other men and laughed. All that was left for the children of the dead was to remember. If they had the strength.Shadow of the Boomerang
IMDB 0 | Aug , 1961
An American brother and sister move to Australia to manage a cattle station, but the brother's racist attitude causes problems. After hearing a message by evangelist Billy Graham on the radio though, he has a change of heart and learns to accept the Aboriginal people.Yolngu Boy
IMDB 5.3 | Mar , 2001
After committing a crime for which he is likely to be jailed, a Yolngu teenager convinces two of his childhood friends to join him on a journey from North East Arnhem Land to Darwin to seek help from a tribal leader.My Colour, Your Kind
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1998
A portrait of an albino Aboriginal teenager, her feelings of alienation while at a convent boarding school, and her dreams of escape.The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
IMDB 7.3 | May , 1994
Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.Zombie Brigade
IMDB 2.5 | May , 1988
When an amusement park is built on the grounds of an old cemetery, the dead rise to take revenge.Words with Gods
IMDB 5.7 | Nov , 2014
The first of four installments in the groundbreaking Heartbeat of the World anthology film series. Comprised of several short films by some of the world's most exciting directors, Words with Gods follows the theme of religion - specifically as it relates to an individual's relationship with his/her god or gods...or the lack thereof. In Words with Gods, each director recounts a narrative centered around human fragility, as well as environmental and cultural crises involving specific religions with which each has a personal relationship; including early Aboriginal Spirituality, Umbanda, Buddhism, the Abrahamic faiths, Hinduism, and Atheism. An animated sequence by Mexican animator Maribel Martinez is woven through each of the film segments, with each segment narratively connected as a feature-length film.When Shadows Dance at Night
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2021
Following her brother's death, Georgia, a young college student, returns home to her reservation only to find she's become the prey of a shapeshifting, faceless figure.Ayaan
IMDB 2 | Jun , 2020
An escaped asylum seeker encounters an Aboriginal man on a remote Australian beach. She must decide whether to trust him or journey on alone.The Fringe Dwellers
IMDB 6 | Oct , 1986
The story of an Aboriginal family's attempts to forge a new life for themselves within the segregated society. At the urging of headstrong teenager Trilby, the Comeaways relocate from their family camp, to a house in the main town.Charlie's Country
IMDB 7.1 | Oct , 2013
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 proper policing of whitefella laws that don't generally make much sense, and Charlie's kin and ken seeming more interested in going along with things than doing anything about it. So Charlie takes off, to live the old way, but in doing so sets off a chain of events in his life that has him return to his community chastened, and somewhat the wiser.