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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 (15[1])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 (15[1])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, 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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Nicholas TunksCléo from 5 to Se7en SamuraiLittle Park Boys effect vs. 217 T dm^23615
William GoldenThe Friends of Eddie Coylecoolmonkeywalking.gif8915
Taylor HarveyThe kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human beings I've ever known in my lifeViolent J's Beach Boys Barbecue Blowout Bash Blast Buzzer Bozos: The Movie10510
Matthew BlissGet Carter BurwellIs it Safe (1995, dir. Todd Haynes)?14410

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