Stories for the 審査する bring Indigenous people together
Artistic director Tony Briggs believes the Birrarangga Film Festival 統一するs Indigenous peoples from around the world through story.
"When I was a young lad I remember my aunty, Hyllus Maris, who wrote Women of the Sun, went away to the (部隊d) 明言する／公表するs and she （機の）カム 支援する talking about all the First Nations people she met and how their culture is like ours," he said.
"It's 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の, it's the way we tell our stories."
The Birrarangga Film Festival, a 祝賀 of Indigenous films from around the globe, is returning to Naarm (Melbourne), from March 23-28.
Briggs, a Wurundjeri/Yorta Yorta man, is also the creative 軍隊 behind The Sapphires, a story based on his mother's experiences singing in an all-女性（の） Aboriginal 禁止（する）d that travelled to Vietnam during the war.
Bones of Crows, from Canadian First Nations director Marie Clements, will open the festival.
It tells the story of Cree musical prodigy Aline, who along with her siblings, is 除去するd from her family and 軍隊d into Canada's 居住の school system and has （疑いを）晴らす 平行のs with Australia's Stolen 世代s.
"Bones of Crows is an epic film and it's beautifully made," Briggs said.
"I find these 肉親，親類d of stories really fascinating because 正確に／まさに the same thing that happened to our 暴徒 here happened to other 暴徒s all over the world."
Briggs said Bones of Crows tells an important story.
"People need to understand that Indigenous children 存在 stolen from their families was not an 孤立するd event," he said.
"It's not some いわゆる '黒人／ボイコット armband' 見解（をとる） of history, this happened all over the colonised world.< /p>
"This story is a real testament to the strength and courage of all the people who fought against this 肉親，親類d of tyranny and it's also beautifully 発射, so I implore people to get tickets and come and see it."
The program also features new short films by Aboriginal filmmakers, a 審査 of Leah Purcell's The Drover's Wife and, for the first time, a kids program, Kyindoo Wilam (Learning Place), a 選択 of 活気／アニメーションs and short films.
A diverse collection of feature length narratives, 文書のs and shorter 生産／産物s from New Zealand, Canada, USA, Norway, Sweden, Greenland, Mexico, Russia, Hawaii and Australia are on 申し込む／申し出.
"Birrarangga is bringing stories from all over the world 権利 here to Naarm," Briggs said.
"It speaks 直接／まっすぐに to the heart of Indigenous culture and gives us all a 発言する／表明する."
開始 night is at the （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂 Theatre, RMIT, and 含むs a question and answer 開会／開廷／会期 with Metis/Dene filmmaker Marie Clements and a party after the 審査 of Bones of Crows.
