TEN CANOES 4K Restoration 20th Anniversary Special Event Screening "Fascinating."

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Narrated by David Gulpilil and staring Jamie Gulpilil , Ten Canoes is a landmark Australian film. Directed by Rolf De Heer it won a Jury Prize at Cannes and has numerous other awards. It also did very well at the box office- over 3 million which for any Australian film is magnificent

Set in a time before Western influence in Australia's wild Northern Territory, a man tells us a story of his people and his land.

He tells the story in the context of a group of ten men in a traditional hunting situation. The leader of the group, Minygululu, tells the young Dayindi (Jamie Gulpilil) a story about another young man even further back in time who, like Dayindi, coveted his elder brother's youngest wife. The sequences featuring Dayindi and the hunt are in black and white, while shots set in distant past ar…