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Return to the dreaming (Captioned)

Australia, 1973
film

Yirrawala, a great Aboriginal painter, takes his sons, who have grown up in the white man’s world, back into Arnhem Land in an attempt to find sacred ca..

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Return to the dreaming

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The Dreaming

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Dreamings : the art of Aboriginal Australia

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A Calendar of dreamings: Aboriginal artists of Central Australia

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We believe in it...We know it's true

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