Warwick Thornton Movies

Writer and Director Warwick Thornton has assembled a collection of the most poignant, sad, funny and absurd ghost stories from around Australia. He...

A Japanese tourist enjoying a relaxed car journey through the beauty and tranquility of the Australian desert collides with a violent moment in time....

This documentary focuses on the sacred sites in and around Mparntwe (Alice Springs) in central Australia, and the struggle of the Arrernte people to...

Fresh out of the academy, White Cop experiences his first taste of Aboriginal community life, as Black Cop puts him to the test.

When eldest sister Cressy, middle daughter Mae and the young Nona are reunited for the first time in years it doesn’t take long for the sparks...

A young Aboriginal oyster farmer meets an aerial artist when the circus comes to town and must decide whether he will follow in his family footsteps...

When two First World War enemy soldiers become stranded in no man’s land, an unlikely bond is formed. Will they still be able to pull the...

Filmmaker Warwick Thornton investigates our relationship to the Southern Cross, in this fun and thought provoking ride through Australia's cultural...

They were Australia’s bad days. Men killed other men and laughed. All that was left for the children of the dead was to remember. If they had...

A white collector of Aboriginal art gets a shock when the Mimi sculpture she purchased comes to life.

Fifty years ago an Indigenous Classical Orchestra was formed at the Derby Leprosarium, Playing Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and even Handel. This...

Paddy finds there are two separate laws, the white and the black.

This short romantic drama from Erica Glynn uses the power of silence to communicate the tension between two characters who have been promised to each...

MARLUKU WIRLINYI is a tale of kangaroo hunting that weaves its way through Dreamtime, to the present and back again. A group of old Warlpiri men...

This moving documentary is a record of a few hours in the life of a small 7 year old boy, Ricco, from Hidden Valley, one of the many town camps on...

In 1955, filmmaker Chauvel debuted Jedda. His star was a young Arrernte woman from Alice Springs named Ngarla Kunoth, or Rosalie. Her story, the...

Jessie Bartlett a shy 18 year old girl, learns the lores of love from her mischievous Pintubi grandmothers, Mijili, Nancy and Kumanjayi. A film about...

A woman living in a deserted mining camp might not be the only person hiding out there.

15-year-old Marnie, Handycam at her side, captures a day in the life of her housing project.