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As a group of Indigenous adults argue about whether to save their government housing or their sacred lands, their children struggle with how the ancestral Dreaming makes sense in their contemporary lives filled with hip-hop and dinosaur bones. WHEN THE DOGS TALKED mixes nonfiction and fiction in a thoughtful yet humorous drama about the difficulties Indigenous communities have living within the strictures of modern white culture while maintaining a sense of their own traditions and relationship to the land.

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Crew

Director
Elizabeth A. Povinelli
Producer
Tess Lea

Production Details

Production Completion
2014
Production Company
Karrabing Indigenous Corporation

Selected Awards & Festivals