Film Screening: Bran Nue Dae

Bran Nue Dae is a coming-of-age musical comedy that celebrates family, forgiveness and aboriginal reconciliation.

It's the Summer of 1965 and teenage Aboriginal boy Willie is filled with the life of the idyllic old pearling port Broome in tropical northwest Australia - fishing, hanging out with his mates, and when he can, his girl Rosie.

But his mother Theresa has great hopes for him and she returns him to the religious mission for further schooling. After being punished by Father Benedictus for an act of youthful rebellion, Willie runs away from the mission.

Down on his luck he meets the drunk wily old Uncle Tadpole, and together they con a couple of hippies, Annie and Slippery into taking them on the 3,000 km journey through spectacular landscape back to Broome.

Cast

Phillip Rocky McKenzie* - young boy Willie
Jessica Mauboy* - young girl Rosie
Ernie Dingo* - Uncle Tadpole
Missy Higgins - Annie
Geoffrey Rush - Father Benedictus
Deborah Mailman* - Roxanne
Tom Budge - Slippery
Magda Szubanski - Roadhouse Betty
Ningali Lawford-Wolf* - Theresa, Willie's mother
Stephen Baamba Albert* - Pastor Flakkon
Dan Sultan* - Lester
* Aboriginal actor

Rating: PG

Source: Bran Nue Dae (Brand new day) (Film) - Creative Spirits, retrieved from https://www.creativespirits.info/resources/movies/bran-nue-dae-brand-new-day