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Toomelah (Ivan Sen)

Indigenous Peoples • 1h 41m

Directed by Ivan Sen • Drama • With Daniel Connors, Michael Connors, Christopher Edwards • 2011 • 101 minutes

In a remote Aboriginal community, 10 year old Daniel yearns to be a gangster, like the male role models in his life. Skipping school, getting into fights and running drugs for Linden, who leads the main gang in town.

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aboriginal, australia, drama, drama_genre, drugs, gangster, identity, indigenous, monument releasing / visit films, narrative, narrative_genre, new zealand, ovid, school, self discovery, toomelah

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