THE NEW BOY

Drama
Australia, 2023, 116 min

Directed by: Warwick Thornton
Screenplay: Warwick Thornton
Director of photography: Warwick Thornton
Edited by: Nick Meyers
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Aswan Reid, Deborah Mailman, Wayne Blair, Shane Brady, Tyrique Brady, Tyler Spencer

In a remote monastery in 1940s Australia, a mission for Aboriginal children is run by a renegade nun, Sister Eileen (Cate Blanchett). A new charge is brought in the dead of night – a boy who appears to have special powers. But the boy’s Indigenous spirituality does not gel with the mission’s Christian teachings and his mysterious powers become a threat.