Film
The Native Police
2026Directed by Charles Perkins
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- Released
- Runtime
- 11m
About The Native Police
- Drama
- Western
Synopsis
A glimpse into a brutal chapter of Australia’s past, this powerful short from emerging Arrernte/Kalkadoon filmmaker Charles Perrurle Perkins follows an Indigenous man forced to work as a tracker for a white expansionist group forging their way across the Central Desert. Tasked with escorting a young Arrernte girl, he is forced to reckon with the colonial-driven violence that is tearing his people apart.
- Director
- Charles Perkins
- Writer
- Charles Perkins
