In mid-1940s Australia, a nameless nine-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy is captured by police and taken in at a remote monastery for Indigenous boys. The monastery is seemingly run by a male priest, who … See more

• Aswan Reid as New Boy
• Cate Blanchett as Sister Eileen
• Deborah Mailman as Sister Mum
• Wayne Blair as George… See more

The original idea for the story arose in around 2005, when filmmaker Warwick Thornton wrote a script which drew on his negative experiences in a Catholic boarding school as a boy, featuring a Benedictine monk. Duri… See more

Angela Bates, Screen Australia's Head of First Nations, described The New Boy as "a genre-defying film that explores spirituality, culture and colonisation in a way we haven’t seen on screen before".
Thornton s… See more

The New Boy had its world premiere at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, under the Un Certain Regard section, on 19 May 2023. It later had its Australian premiere as the opening film of the 2023 Sydney Film Festival on … See more