Major Australian Writer's Guild (AWGIE) award 2009 (most outstanding Australian script) and AWGIE Original Feature Film award 2009 The Desert Mulga Band - The verandah band Release dates - AustraliaĢ2 April 2010 - Netherlands Video/DVD release date 25 November 2009 - Australia 21 June 2010 - UK Awards Audience Award: Best Feature - Adelaide Film Festival 2009īest First Film - Camera d'Or for first time filmmakers, Cannes film festival 2009 It's a remarkable achievement in cinema and steps beyond what most filmmakers are trying to achieve. This groundbreaking, moving film brings to the many Australians who don't have a clue just how tough life must be for Indigenous Australians. Hopefully will serve as a wake up call to the continuing apathy displayed by the dominant culture in this country toward the plight of disadvantaged Aborigines. Scott Wilson, Chairman, Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation Samson and Delilah is a powerfully confronting film which presents the complexities and realities of everyday life for many young Indigenous people. Warwick Thornton, director of Samson & Delilah Making Samson & Delilahĭon't miss the Making of Samson and Delilah, a documentary by Beck Cole.Īustralian cinema is never going to be the same. It has the most beautiful angels and the most evil devils. It's my life-everything in that film I've seen and I wanted to show the world what Alice Springs is like. Samson & Delilah resonates with truth and will open the eyes of all those who mistakenly believe the hard-won apology given by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made life better for the first inhabitants. Delilah is traumatised by two terrible events and their future seems bleak.Īs they discover how harsh life can be for a pair of homeless kids, they also fall in love.

They shelter under a bridge in the town's dry river bed and Samson's sniffing and isolation worsen. When Delilah is blamed by community women for her Nana's death and violence intervenes in the teenagers' lives, they steal a communal car and head for Alice Springs, a place no safer than their community. Delilah spends her days caring for and painting with her Nana, Samson is a chronic petrol sniffer who has cast his eyes on Delilah. Aboriginal teenagers Samson and Delilah live in an isolated community outside Alice Springs, about 1,500 kms south of Darwin.

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