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Title Grace
Released 1998
Production Year 1998
Director Wesley Enoch
Comments Grace is part of the 'Shifting Sands' collection of short Indigenous films.

The collection is an initiative of the Indigenous Branch of the Australian Film Commission. 'Shifting Sands' is the continuation of the 'From Sand To Celluloid' collection which was released in 1996.
Synopsis An old woman returns to Australia for her sister's funeral after living in London having escaped mission life. Reassimilating with her sister's family proves to be a difficult process. Treated as an outcast, she leaves the family without saying goodbye. On her way to the airport she visits her sister's gravesite unaware that her niece had followed her. It is only when she looses control and begins filling her suitcase with soil from the grave that her neice finally acknowledges her auntie's loss as equal to her own.
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