WE DON'T NEED A MAP
Australia / 2017 / 85 min / DCP

Director : Warwick Thornton

Introduced by Greta Morton Elangué, director of "Festival du Cinéma Aborigène Australien"

The Southern Cross is a constellation of five stars in the shape of a cross that is only visible in the sky of the southern hemisphere. Set to a soundtrack of Australian punk music, this stunning film explores the complex place this constellation has taken in the Australian national imagination. Thornton dissects the recent cultural appropriation of this astral symbol by racist groups, but thanks to the stories of the lawmen Warlpiri, Yolgnu and Wardaman, we discover that this constellation is not only a cross but a kind of cosmological map, as well as a site of sacred aboriginal knowledge.