SYDNEY -- Indigenous-language feature "Ten Canoes" captured three of the 15 Australian Film Institute Industry Awards handed out Wednesday night in Melbourne, ahead of Thursday's main nods for film ...

Anthropology and entertainment are marvelously married in Rolf de Heer's "Ten Canoes." The first feature in an Australian Aboriginal language feels authentic to the core as it tells a cautionary tale ...

SYDNEY -- Australia's film critics picked Rolf de Heer's "Ten Canoes" as their top film of the year Friday at the annual Film Critics Circle of Australia awards ceremony in Melbourne. By Pip Bulbeck, ...

I drifted into it. I happen to get a job at the Australian Broadcasting Commission, but it was a job as a storeman. [It had] nothing to do with making films [and I] had no intention of making a career ...

Ever-venturesome Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer, in his beautiful but demanding “Ten Canoes,” takes the viewer back 1,000 years to evoke the lives of Aborigines and even further, to a mythological ...

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Sometimes all it takes to bridge the chasm of eons is a little humor. "Ten Canoes," an Aborigine fable set in three periods, spanning the present to prehistory, doesn't just address the eternal ...

I’m usually left slightly anxious by those works of western filmmakers that take as their subjects the nature and stories of indigenous peoples. The potential for exploitation – artistic, commercial, ...

Directed by the Dutch expatriate filmmaker Rolf de Heer, this sometimes bawdy (remember: “Never trust a man with a small prick”), always beguiling work of imagination begins with a group of Aboriginal ...