13 minutes of frontier justice that'll wreck you harder than 3-hour epics.
Aided by a female Aboriginal tracker, a constable hunts a band of dangerous criminals on Australia's western frontier in the early 1900s.
Acting
Zalar's silence speaks entire histories.
Direction
Bonser weaponizes every second of runtime.
Cinematography
Frontier beauty that chills your blood.
Director
Perun Bonser
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Blight emerged from Australia's reckoning with colonial history, part of a wave of Indigenous-led filmmaking interrogating frontier mythology. Tasia Zalar's casting as a tracker subverts the 'helpful native' trope entirely.
The title's double meaning—plant disease and moral corruption—lands with the final frame. Bonser refuses redemption arcs that comfort white audiences.
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