Toomelah 2011 after hes suspended from school, an aborigine boy daniel connors from a broken home tries to join the ranks of a gang of drug dealers. A young boy from a blighted home turns to a life of crime in this gritty drama from australian filmmaker ivan sen. Toomelah daniel is a small ten year old boy who dreams of being a gangster. The white men came, took away everything they had, a bit like with the native americans, and left them unemployed, uneducated, with drugs and alcohol as their only means of life. Its the year 3028 and the drej, a vicious alien race, have destroyed earth. Here you will find a collection of short movies about our school. With director ivan sen deftly finding the poetry and humour in this harsh. He gets drawn into a world of drugs and violence and has to make a choice for a better future. I watched this film as i lived in nearby goondiwindi on the queenslandnsw border during the. Toomelah is a movie but when i watched it it looked like it could have been a documentary about how aboriginals live their lives in their ghetto or mission. Quartier rural, aborigene et mal fame en australie. Tenyearold daniel daniel connors was born and raised in toomelah, an. Daniel conners, michael conners and daniel connors. Toomelah 2011 tt1905071 in a remote aboriginal community, 10 year old daniel yearns to be a gangster, like the male role models in his life.
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