Rabbit-Proof Fence

Kenneth Branagh stars in this adaptation of a true story, set in Western Australia in 1931. Government policy includes taking half-white, half-Aboriginal children from their Aboriginal mothers and sending them a thousand miles away to what amounts to indentured servitude, “to save them from themselves.”
Molly, Daisy, and Grace (two sisters and a cousin who are fourteen, ten, and eight) arrive at their Gulag and promptly escape, under Molly’s lead. For several days they walk north, following a fence that keeps rabbits from settlements, pursued by a native tracker and the regional constabulary. Their pursuers take orders from the government’s “Chief Protector of Aborigines”, A.O. Neville (Kenneth Branagh), blinded by Anglo-Christian certainty, evolutionary world view, and conventional wisdom. Can the girls survive?

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