Ten Canoes
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DVD Released (Y/M/D): 2007-09-25
Genre: Drama
Director: Rolf De Heer, Peter Djigirr
Stars: Crusoe Kurddal, Jamie Gulpilil, David Gulpilil, Richard Birrinbirrin, Peter Minygululu, Frances Djulibing, Sonia Djarrabalminym, Cassandra Malangarri Baker
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Synopsis: A thousand years ago, tribal times in the north of Australia. Ten men, led by old Minygululu, head into the forest to harvest barks for canoe making. It is the season of goose egg gathering.
Minygululu learns that young Dayindi, on his first egg hunting expedition, has taken a fancy to Minygululu's third and youngest wife. Tribal law is in danger of being broken: Minygululu deals with the situation by telling Dayindi an ancestral story, a story that will take a very long time to tell, all through the next days of canoe making and swamp travelling and goose egg gathering. This is that story.
  Source: RottenTomatoes.com