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Beyond Sorry

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After 54 years living in the western world, Zita Wallace is moving house... to live in a tin shed in the bush. Taken at the age of eight, rejected by her traditional family when she first returned, this is her last roll of the dice, a final chance to realise her dream of dying on her grandmother's land.

 

This is is an intimate, personal story told by two "half-caste" Aboriginal women, Zita and her "aunty" Aggie. Zita, brought up as a "whitefella" and Aggie, a traditional elder, offer us a unique window into the life that each of the women could have led. The film places front and centre stage these two different lives and the comparison needed to address the burning question "would they have been better off staying with their families?". This film will challenge our understanding of identity at every turn.

 

Beyond Sorry reveals the complexity of emotional and social pressures that come to bear when an urban Aboriginal woman tries to return to the bush family she was taken from as a young child. It is a story of cultural conflict, remarkable courage and generosity, of the ties that bind us to our kin and of two women from the same land trying hard to reconcile two very different worlds...

 

 

 

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