Rabbit-Proof Fence 2002
Peter Gabriel’s music accompanies a fantastic true story… Based on the life of Australian Aboriginal girl Molly Craig, the film is set in the early 1930s in Australia. By government decree, all mixed-race children (children born of a white man and an Aboriginal woman) in the country were selected from their families and raised in special camps to be prepared for service to the white population. 14-year-old Molly, her 8-year-old sister, and their 10-year-old cousin were among these children. Taken forcibly from their families, the children are taken to an education camp 2,000 km away. However, unwilling to be separated from their mother, the children escape at the first opportunity. On their journey back home, they must cross a 2000 km desert and are pursued by a ruthless Aboriginal tracker. The rabbit-proof fence, after which the film is named, is the world’s longest fence that spans the entire Australian continent and is built to keep rabbits away from agricultural areas. Knowing only one fence in the vastness of the world, the children believe they can use this fence to find their way home.
