Through lyrical images, Manganinnie journeys across mountains towards the coast with Joanna, a white girl, in search of Manganinnie's vanished tribe. The poignancy of this film derives from the Aboriginal woman's gradual realization that her people and the tribal way of life are forever gone. It is the story of the Black Drive of 1830, the near-genocide of the Tasmanian Aborigines.
Mawuyul Yanthalawuy
as Manganinnie
Anna Ralph
as Joanna Waterman
Phillip Hinton
as Edward Waterman
Buruminy Dhamarrandji
as Meenopeekameena
Reg Evans
as Quinn
Jonathan Elliot
as Simon Waterman
Timothy Latham
as William Waterman
Bill McCluskey
as Convict 2
Charles Lathalu Yunipingu
as Aboriginal warrior
