Country: Australia – Wimbledon Film Club

Rabbit Proof Fence

Three mixed-race aboriginal girls are removed from their home to be assimilated into white settler culture in an integrationist school on the other side of Australia.

Japanese Story

Geologist Sandy (Collette) takes a Japanese businessman into the Australian outback to show him the mining venture in which he has a share.

Ten Canoes

A beautifully crafted tragi-comedy set in the timeless freshwater swamps of Arnhem Land in Australia.

Warwick Thornton’s compelling drama/romance of two Aboriginal teenagers concerns Samson (McNamara) and Delilah (Gibson) as they escape the despair and violence of a dead end shanty settlement in the middle of the Australian desert for a better life.

Lore

As the Allies carve up Germany, Lore leads her siblings to safety.

The Rocket

This Australian underdog drama about a young boy thought to bring bad luck to his family is set in the little-filmed country of Laos (one of the world’s few remaining communist states and one of the poorest countries in East Asia), and spoken in the Lao language.

Blind Ambition

An audience favourite at festivals, Blind Ambition ticks all the boxes for a feelgood underdog documentary, but the film’s popularity rests on more than dramatic clichés and familiar tropes about competitive spirit.

Bright Star

London 1818: Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish) is increasingly drawn to the handsome but aloof poet John Keats (a young Ben Whishaw). Writer-director Jane Campion (The Piano) received a Palme d’Or nomination for her understated yet deeply romantic literary drama, inspired by Andrew Motion’s 1997 biography of the poet.

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Directed by Peter Weir, Picnic at Hanging Rock is a 1975 Australian mystery film involves the disappearance of several schoolgirls and their teacher during a picnic at Hanging Rock, Victoria on Valentine’s Day in 1900, and the subsequent effect on the local community.

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