Jedda

Set in the Northern Territory, Jedda tells the story of an Indigenous baby adopted by a white woman. She grows up with an expectation that she'll marry a mixed-race stockman, only to be abducted by the bad, mad and 'primitive' Marbuk who lures her to her death. Many layers lie beneath the film's story making it not only a seminal piece but also a classic. Jane Mills unpeels these many layers and in so doing finds Jedda intriguing because its meaning is not fixed and because of the many mysteries