Rabbit-Proof Fence
Rabbit-Proof Fence
“ Follow your heart, follow the fence ”
CINEMA2002-02-04
RegionAU / GB
Runtime94 MIN
Media TypeMovie
PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Nexus Editorial Perspective Nexus Original
“Shows colonial assimilation entering family, body, and identity through Indigenous children’s experience.”
Storyline
In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a trek across the Outback.
DIRECTOR / Director
Phillip Noyce
KEYWORDS
australiachild abusesibling relationshipapproved schoolprosecutionbased on true storysurvivaltrackeroutbackcolonialismaustralian aboriginalaustralian outbackaboriginalaborigineperth1930s
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Bloodstained scars left by imperial conquest—the oppressed rising from the ashes to reclaim sacred human sovereignty.
Shows colonial assimilation entering family, body, and identity through Indigenous children’s experience.
