Hammerman Ikon

Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

Rabbit-proof Fence
2002
****
Director: Phillip Noyce
Cast: Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, Kenneth Branagh

Up to the 1970s the Australian government enforced a law which entitled them to take half-caste children away from their biological parents. This touching but unsentimental drama follows three girls who escape internment and begin a long journey home.