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The Balanda and the Bark Canoes

Sep 7, 2006 · 55m
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A documentary about making the feature film "Ten Canoes". It is May, 2005 in Central Arnhem Land: 'We are making a movie. The story is their story, those that live on this land, in their language, and set a long time before the coming of the Balanda, as we white people are known. For the people of the Arafura Swamp, this film is an opportunity, maybe a last chance to hold on to the old ways. For all of us, the challenges are unexpected, the task beyond anything imagined. For me, it is the most difficult film I have made, in the most foreign land I've been to...and it is Australia.' - Rolf de Heer

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Rolf de Heer
Self - Narrator
Directed by Rolf de Heer

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Original language
EN
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Revenue
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Country
AU

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