We come to know Minygululu and Dayindi, two brothers who, along with eight other canoeists, are about to go on a seasonal goose-egg hunt. ![]() The set is the Arafura Swamp of Northern Australia, in the town of Ramingining in the hoary and secretive forests of Arnhamland, a thousand years ago, long before the arrival of Europeans. Narrated in English - unlike all the dialogues, entirely done in Yolngu - by David Gulpilil (one of Australia's most renowned actors, who you might know as the Aborigine boy from Nicolas Roeg's Walkabout) who starts by warning us that what we're about to see is "a story like you never seen before", the story of his people and his land. A highly unusual, metaphoric and unprecedent cinematic delight by dutch-born australian Rolf de Heer. ![]() Winner of the Special Jury Prize at last year's Cannes, the film - the first entirely in Australian Aboriginal languages - is a sort of part adventure, part comedy, and part anthropological lesson. ![]() Although strange and never-before-seen are the most obvious words to describe Ten Canoes, after watching the film you get this slight feeling that you just witnessed something great.
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