Koorine is a young girl growing up in a country town in 1957. At that time Aboriginal people were not welcome in public swimming pools and had to sit separately at the movies. Koorine desperately wants to enter the Million Dollar Mermaid swimming contest. She has a choice because she “looks white”. Then a fight breaks out at the swimming pool between her Koori friends and her white friends. Who does she support?
Also in this combined programme
Film details
- Country of production
- Australia
- Year
- 1996
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2003
- Length
- 15'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
