Live stream preview

Watch this video and more on OVID.tv

Watch this video and more on OVID.tv

Start your free trial

Already subscribed? Sign in

Dreams from the Outback

Indigenous Peoples • 1h 19m

Directed by Jannik Splidsboel • Documentary • 2019 • 79 minutes

Once, Australia discussed whether Aboriginals belong to fauna or to human beings. Today in the Kimberley, home to various Aboriginal communities, most are in transition, causing limbo and distress. Some have given up; others choose to fight to bring a change for the better to their people.

Gabriel and Peter try to keep the ancient cultural traditions alive, with almost no support from the rest of their community. Felicity struggles to keep her family together after years of drinking and neglect. Teenagers Billy and Jordan are brothers who just met for the first time. The boys spend the days getting to know each other, exploring the outback and the Aboriginal culture.

Tags
aboriginal, addiction and substance abuse, alcoholism, anthropology and archaeology, australia, community, cultural and ethnic studies, cultural anthropology, culture, dreams from the outback, exclusive1, expository, family issues, first hand films, health, healthcare, human rights, indigenous, medicine and nursing, oceania, outback, ovid, ovid_ca, racism, religion and spirituality, s_0050, s_0065, s_0066, s_0104, s_0150, s_0244, s_0295, s_0473, s_0581, social issues, social studies, teenagers, title_d, world regions, youth, youth issues

Up Next in Indigenous Peoples

  • Sun Kissed
    1:25:13
    Sun Kissed

    Sun Kissed

    Directed by Maya Stark & Adi Lavy • Documentary • 2012 • 85 minutes

    For fifteen years Dorey and Yolanda Nez thought they were the only family on the Navajo Reservation who had children with an extremely rare genetic disorder that only shows up at a rate of one in a million in the general pop...

  • 10th Parallel
    1:27:06
    10th Parallel

    10th Parallel

    Directed by Silvio Da-Rin • Documentary • 2011 • 87 minutes

    10th PARALLEL takes us on a 300-mile journey up Brazil's Envira river into the heart of the Amazon Rainforest, to the frontier of a territory populated by the country's uncontacted indigenous tribes. Our guide is Jose Carlos Meirelles, ...

  • The Exiles
    1:12:55
    The Exiles

    The Exiles

    Directed by Kent Mackenzie • Documentary • With Yvonne Williams, Homer Nish, Tom Reynolds
    • 1961 • 72 minutes

    The Exiles chronicles a night in the life of young Native Americans who fled reservation life to roam the Bunker Hill district of Los Angeles. Outside filmmaker Kent Mackenzie crafted ...

×