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A filmmaker of this ethnicity directed the Badlands-esque Samson and Delilah and the western Sweet Country. A character of this ethnicity pops a red balloon released by a male scientist trying to flirt with his only female colleague. The first film to feature a reconstructed language used among this ethnicity was one that ends with a character named for its word for “blackbird” listening to a Gaelic folk song on a beach. A dance sequence from a 1971 film depicts a teenager of this ethnicity courting a girl who witnessed her father shoot himself after failing to kill her and her brother at a family (*) picnic. (10[1])A man of this ethnicity helps an Irish immigrant take revenge on a lieutenant for raping her and killing her husband in Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale. The best-known actor of this ethnicity, David Gulpilil (“KOOL-pil-il”), debuted in Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])the film The Rabbit-Proof Fence raised awareness of what ethnicity’s “stolen generations?” ■END■

ANSWER: Aboriginal Australians [or Aboriginal Tasmanians; accept specific subgroups like Kaytetye, Warlpiri, or Yolngu; accept Indigenous Australians; prompt on First Nations or Indigenous people by asking “of what country?”] (The director in the lead-in is Warwick Thornton. The language is palawa kani, which was used in The Nightingale.)
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Connor MayersIs it about a Bicycle Thief?My estimation of Ira Sachs as a director just plummeted10510
Matt Weineryes yes mmm cailles aux raisins so goodYet another shrubbery14410
Mike BentleyA cookie full of arsenicRosebud Frozen Peas14710

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