THE NEW BOY

Wednesday 9 August

10am, 2:30pm, 5pm, 7:30pm

Director Warwick Thornton

Drama

Australian

116 minutes

Set in 1940s Australia, the film depicts the mesmeric story of a 9-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery run by a renegade nun (Cate Blanchett). The new boy’s presence disturbs the delicately balanced world in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival.

The visual power of Thornton’s gorgeous compositions remains transfixing. – The Hollywood Reporter

The New Boy, written, directed and filmed by Indigenous filmmaker Warwick Thornton is a masterpiece. – Stephen Romei, The Australian