Familiar Places
Familiar Places
1980, English. Directed by David MacDougall.
Narrated by the linguist and anthropologist Peter Sutton, this documentary observes his work with a family in far north Queensland, outside Aurukun, to map their hereditary "clan country". The aim of the older members of the family is partly to protect their land and prove their attachment to it, for purposes of dealing with the government and industry, and also to demarcate the country from claims by other Aboriginal groups.
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- 0h 50m
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- English
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Familiar Places runs 50 minutes (0h 50m).
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Familiar Places isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1980. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
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Who directed Familiar Places?
Familiar Places (1980) was directed by David MacDougall.