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