Victoria Kennedy

When Lena wins a trip to a new-age retreat, she is thrilled at the chance to take a break from being her mother's sole carer. Once there, she is forced to choose between returning to reality or existing in AI-generated happiness...forever.

Loosely based on the filmmaker's personal experience, "Terra Nullius" is an impressionistic account of an eight year old Koori girl, Alice, growing up in a white adoptive family which denies her Aboriginality. The film examines how unacknowledged shame and fear passes from one generation to the next, from one culture to another. The last scene depicts a silent meeting between the young Alice and the adult Alice. In order to reclaim her life, Alice decides she must confront the pain and confusion of her childhood.