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TEN CANOES

By Peter DJIGIRR, Rolf DE HEER

LATITUDE FILM - as PROMO / CONS

Drama - Completed 2006

In Australia's Northern Territory, a man tells us a story of his people and his land. It's about an older man, Minygululu, who has three wives and realizes that his younger brother Dayindi may try to steal away the youngest wife.

- Year of production
- 2006
- Genres
- Drama, Action/Adventure
- Countries
- AUSTRALIA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Peter DJIGIRR, Rolf DE HEER
- Writer(s)
- Rolf DE HEER
- Cast
- Richard BIRRINBIRRIN, Crusoe KURDDAL, Jamie GULPILI
- Producer(s)
- Sue MURRAY, Julie RYAN, Bryce MENZIES
- Synopsis
- A story within a story. In Australia's Northern Territory, a man tells us one of the stories of his people and his land. It's a story of an older man, Minygululu, who has three wives and realizes that his younger brother Dayindi may try to steal away the youngest wife. So, over a few days and several trips to hunt and gather, Minygululu tells Dayindi a story set in the time of their ancestors when a stranger came to the village and disrupted the lives of a serious man named Ridjimiraril, his three wives, and his younger brother Yeeralparil who had no wife and liked to visit his youngest sister-in-law. Through stories, can values be taught and balance achieved?