Thalu: Dreamtime is Now

August. 16,2018

Rating：

5.5

Genre：

Animation

Keywords：

Indigenous Australians Aboriginal Dreamtime

Trailer Synopsis Cast

An indigenous mine site worker is transported to the spirit world, where he meets the spirits and custodians of the land and learns about how they are connected to humankind, even as their sacred sites are under threat by the modern human world.

Trevor Jamieson as Minkala / Narrator

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