Toomelah

Growing up in a remote Aboriginal community, 10-year-old Daniel is drawn into a world of drugs and violence, forcing him to make some difficult choices, in Ivan Sen’s Cannes-nominated film.

Growing up in a remote Aboriginal community, 10-year-old Daniel is drawn from his broken home and disruptive schooling into a gangster world of drugs and violence. While his elderly aunt struggles to reconnect with the community and his girlfriend Tanitia pleads with him to return to school, a brutal turf war erupts between two rival gangs and he is caught in the middle.

Named after the real-life community where director Ivan Sen’s mother grew up, Toomelah was nominated in the Un Certain Regard selection at Cannes 2011.