Arquivo

In a distant past, in a tribal age, Dayindi, an aborigine, covets one of his older brother?s wives. A story is told to him, with intent to teach him the correct way to act - a story about a mystic past, deep love, kidnapping, witchcraft, of spells cast to cause physical impairment, and of vengeance. Director Rolf de Heer wrote the script after aborigine actor David Gulpilil showed him a photograph taken in the mid-thirties by anthropologist Dr Donald Thompson, with ten natives in their canoes in the Arafura swamplands. Ancients from the tribe taught the production team how to build the canoes that had not been made for some five decades. This is the first large-scale Australian production spoken entirely in an aborigine language.