The Secret Art of Human Flight
LIKE MY BROTHER is a joyful, entertaining and inspiring story of relationships and respect, heartbreak and triumph. Ultimately, the film explores sport as a force for change and the bridge across diff…
The Secret Art of Human Flight
LIKE MY BROTHER is a joyful, entertaining and inspiring story of relationships and respect, heartbreak and triumph. Ultimately, the film explores sport as a force for change and the bridge across different worlds. LIKE MY BROTHER explores what it takes to look for success in two worlds. —Sal Balharrie 'Like My Brother' documents the lively journeys of four young women from the remote Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory who aspire to play Australian football in the national women's league (AFLW). After talent scouts from the Essendon Football Club visit the Tiwis and offer places in a 12-week pre-season training program in Melbourne, the young women have to navigate dislocation from their families into an alien urban environment. Their efforts to adapt to the club's expectations are interwoven with humour, grief, camaraderie and determination. Their football talents are obvious but will these raw recruits succeed? Filmed across six years, this ground-breaking account captures the key moments and turning points in the lives of teenagers developing into adults caught between contrasting cultures. The soundtrack's original songs deserve special mention for so stylishly articulating the emotions of the pivotal scenes. 'Like My Brother' is a distinctively Australian story powered by a humanity that speaks beyond the bounds of a national game to a universal audience. —Euan
The Secret Art of Human Flight
Comedy,Drama,Fantasy
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LIKE MY BROTHER is a joyful, entertaining and inspiring story of relationships and respect, heartbreak and triumph. Ultimately, the film explores sport as a force for change and the bridge across different worlds. LIKE MY BROTHER explores what it takes to look for success in two worlds.
—Sal Balharrie 'Like My Brother' documents the lively journeys of four young women from the remote Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory who aspire to play Australian football in the national women's league (AFLW). After talent scouts from the Essendon Football Club visit the Tiwis and offer places in a 12-week pre-season training program in Melbourne, the young women have to navigate dislocation from their families into an alien urban environment. Their efforts to adapt to the club's expectations are interwoven with humour, grief, camaraderie and determination.
Their football talents are obvious but will these raw recruits succeed? Filmed across six years, this ground-breaking account captures the key moments and turning points in the lives of teenagers developing into adults caught between contrasting cultures. The soundtrack's original songs deserve special mention for so stylishly articulating the emotions of the pivotal scenes. 'Like My Brother' is a distinctively Australian story powered by a humanity that speaks beyond the bounds of a national game to a universal audience.
—Euan.