In 1995, Australian filmmaker Charles Chauvel debuted Jedda, his story of an Arrernte girl raised by a white Australian family. His star was a young Arrernte woman from Alice Springs named Ngarla Kunoth, or Rosalie. Her story, the story of what happened before and after Chauvel’s film, is told in Warwick Thornton’s Rosalie’s Journey. Where Chauvel’s film offered an imagined and romanticized version of Arrernte life, Rosalie’s Journey offers a true glimpse into what happens when two polarized cultures collide. A montage of found footage, old photos, and recreations provides the backdrop for Rosalie’s telling of her tale—how as a young child, she was sent to a convent to learn English and the mores of Western society; how after Jedda, she was forced to re-examine her place in both her native and adopted cultures, and how in her later years, she regrets nothing.  SD