When Miro returns home at the end of World War II he finds his land taken, his people gone, his daughter stolen and his service record treated with contempt. But the battlefield has taught him how to fight and he sets out to reunite his family waging his own form of justice.
Direction
Wharfe McIntyre packs a feature's worth of story into 23 minutes.
Acting
Coles Smith's silent devastation speaks louder than dialogue.
Director
Victoria Wharfe McIntyre
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The short directly engages Australia's Stolen Generations, where Indigenous children were forcibly removed from families until the 1970s—Miro's fictional rage channels generations of documented trauma.
Wharfe McIntyre deliberately evokes classic Western tropes only to weaponize them against colonial mythmaking; the 'lone rider' here is reclaiming land, not taming wilderness.
US
AU
