The Fringe Dwellers (1986 - Australia)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091081/


Australian Film Institute - WON - Best Adapted Screenplay

Filmed at Cherbourg and Murgon, Queensland, Australia

The first Australian film to cast Indigenous actors in all its leading roles, this is also a rare Australian film to be selected for the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival. 

Kristina Nehm stars as an Aborigine woman named Trilby, who along with her extended family lives on the fringes of "accepted" Australian society. Trilby's mother urges her family to remove themselves from squalor and move up to an Housing Commission accommodation.
But, when they move to the suburbs, are unfairly judged by their mainly white, upper-class neighbours