Australian documentary Samson & Delilah US premiere at Telluride Film Festival
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on September 5, 2009 under Documentary, Film Festival | 
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The Australian documentary film Samson & Delilah will have its US premiere at Telluride Film Festival this weekend. The film premiered at the Adelaide Film Festival earlier this year and won the Camera d’Or First Film prize at Cannes Film Festival.
In the film Samson, a cheeky 15-year-old boy, and Delilah live in an isolated Aboriginal community in the Central Australian desert. In amongst a tiny collection of houses, everything here happens in a cycle. Day in and day out – nothing changes, everything stays the same and no one seems to care.
The two teenagers soon discover that life outside the community can be cruel. Though hungry and rejected Samson and Delilah fall in love. It is all they have. It is real. And when tragedy strikes they turn their backs on home and embark on a journey of survival. Lost, unwanted and alone they discover that life isn’t always fair, but love never judges. The film is reportedly marked by long silences, and what little is spoken is mostly in the Central Australian language Warlpiri.
Director Warwick Thornton and his wife, documentary-maker Beck Cole, producer Kath Shelper, and stars Marissa Gibson and Rowan McNamara flew to Telluride, Colorado, this week to attend the festival.
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