It’s an Australian film, ‘Satellite Boy’, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2012 and went on to feature at the Berlin Film Festival that same year.

Its next screening will be at 6pm on Thursday, October 16, at the Bega Valley Regional Gallery.

The film stars screen legend and award winner David Gulpilil (‘Walkabout’, ‘Storm Boy’, ‘Crocodile Dundee’, ‘Ten Canoes’)  and focuses on Pete (Cameron Wallaby) who lives with his grandfather (David Gulpilil) on the site of an abandoned outdoor cinema in a remote area of Western Australia.

His grandfather tries to teach him skills like hunting and tracking but Pete just wants his mother to return.

Although he misses her terribly, Pete manages to make the most of his situation, putting up with his grandfather's stories and tearing around the countryside on his homemade bike with his best friend, the energetic smart-mouth Kalmain (Joseph Pedley).

This happy existence is suddenly shattered by the news that the cinema has been purchased by a mining company, and is slated for demolition.

Panicked that his mother will not be able to find him when she returns, Pete convinces Kalmain that they can persuade the new owners to keep the cinema intact if they can just get a face-to-face meeting with them in the city.

Kalmain has his own rather urgent reasons for wanting to leave town, so the two friends set out.

When Pete and Kalmain get lost in the desert, starving, thirsty and miles from anywhere, Pete discovers that the skills and knowledge imparted in his grandfather's stories take on real meaning.

$20 ticket gets you dinner, drinks and popcorn, or $15 if you a member for the BVRG friends group.

Book online at the BVRG ticketing page by clicking here.