Rabbit Proof Fence

SHOWING DATE
January 17, 2026 1:00 PM – Betty J. Johnson North Sarasota Public Library 2801 Newtown Blvd, Sarasota, FL 34234
RUNNING TIME
1 hr. 34 min.
RELEASED
2002
RATED
PG
GENRE
Adventure, Documentary
FEATURING
Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, David Gulpilil, Kenneth Branagh
WRITER
Doris Pilkington Garimara
DIRECTOR
Phillip Noyce
SYNOPSIS
Based on the 1996 book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington Garimara, an Aboriginal Australian author. Three mixed-race girls are torn brutally from their Aboriginal mother and sent over a thousand miles away to a training camp for domestic workers as part of a government policy to integrate them into white society. Linking the camp and their distant home territory is a vast rabbit-proof fence, which stretches from one coast to another and just might help the girls find their way back.