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Withdraw and edit:
Muhammad Sami Abdel Hadi

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Original from SBS and NITV

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and National Indigenous Television

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In collaboration with Screen Tasmania

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Produced by Kotikina and Shiwak Films

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You asked me over and over again

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If I remember events from my childhood.

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I remember you left me and my mother

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And she never came back!

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This is what I remember.

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You left us!

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Then you brought me here

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And you acted like nothing ever happened!

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It was to show you that I'm no slacker.

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I wanted you to love life here.

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But this...

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Damn island, it's cursed.

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There's a pile of rocks over there.

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This is your grandfather's grave.

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When cows destroyed the colony area,

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Your grandfather went crazy.

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He didn't want to leave the island.

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He was convinced that if he made the bird
The pilot returns

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It settles in the affected colony,

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The other birds will return with him.

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So he built that damned shrine.

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But that never worked.

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Fucking coward

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He blew his head off with a shotgun.

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I was ten years old.

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That's why I left you and your mother.

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Because I'm a drunkard and a loser, Sonny.

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Just like my father.

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He didn't kill himself because he was drunk.

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I have to show you something.

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Moonbird

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I should have known that
The intentions of the white trolls are not good.

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They said they wanted the colony area for the birds

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But in reality they were looking for grazing land.

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I'm going for a walk.

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We lost 80,000 birds, including the sacred bird

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In exchange for two bottles of wine.

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The shame you brought to my son. It's cruel.

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Tonight, when I meet the ancestors in heaven,

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I will free the family from this terrible burden.

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You're wasting your time, man.

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The birds disappeared. You won't come back.

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Maybe they would if there was
Safe and warm burrows await them.

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Do you remember telling me?

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The story of the moonbird when you were young?

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I also remember my name.

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Tell it.

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When the baby birds are ready,
They leave their burrows at night,

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And it flaps its wings...

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Until the moon sets behind the horizon.

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And they do it every night,

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At every moonrise,

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Until it becomes strong.

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Then when the first good wind comes, it's gone

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And fly to the other side of the world.

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- What about the end of the story?
- This is the end.

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No. In your story,

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The birds come back.

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She returns to the same burrow in which she was born.

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The old birds will have chicks next year.

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- I hope so, man.
- She must.

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And the flying bird will return

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And he will bring all the other birds back with him.

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Just as Grandpa wanted.

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She has that instinct, you know...

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To return to her homeland.

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Here, give me that shovel.

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I almost forgot.

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What are these things?

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It's from an old game your grandfather taught me - fists.

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Take.

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- Great.
- Well, you have to practice.

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There are a lot of movements that you have to learn.

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Here…

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Take it to Alaska.

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See you later, grandfather.

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- Hey guys.
-Frank.

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How did things go?

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Fine.

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Old birds did not settle in any of the
Other islands.

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Someone in the news talked about it.

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- Have you settled here?
- No, she did not settle here.

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Very strange.

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Thanks, Dad.

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You're welcome, buddy.

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She was born at Old Cape Barren

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In the distant blue hills

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I was a little kid

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When my mother died

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When my time comes

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I hope to meet both of you

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Let us meet in that land

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High in the sky

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Extracted and edited by Mohamed Samy AbdElHady

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