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KABBARLI is a short feature based on the extraordinary life of Daisy Bates and her passionate interest in Australian Aborigines. The film interweaves fiction and biography, history and memory to explore Daisy Bates' life - a dramatic map of the colonial imagination and a portrait of a remarkable woman.
Twenty-four years after migrating to Australia in search of a new life, Patricia and Courtney Nunn seem to have found it. The racial tensions and painful memories of living as 'mixed race' in Apartheid South Africa are a thousand miles away...but Africa isn't that easy to leave behind. When her grandparents appear to her in a vision, Patricia decides it is time to go back to Swaziland in Southern Africa: time to face the demons of the past and celebrate the richness of her African heritage. Accompanied by her filmmaker daughter, Patricia returns to Swaziland to perform the 'Gobuyisa' ceremony in honour of her ancestors. In doing so she awakens memories of her own dark childhood and encounters the prejudices of the mixed race community who still consider African ceremonies heathen and backward. Patricia's journey is emotional, unpredictable and finally a joyous celebration of individual strength and courage.
In 1979 Australia expanded its territorial borders by 200 nautical miles to take advantage of the rich oil and gas deposits in the Timor Sea. For Centuries before, fishermen from the island of Roti in Indonesia were fishing for their livelihood in these same waters. Today they are regularly arrested for trespassing a border they cannot see, and are sent to gaol for increasingly longer periods with no recourse to legal representation. They return home to debts many cannot foresee escaping in their own lifetime. TROUBLED WATERS investigates the human and financial costs of Australia's current border protection policies.
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