Films about the aboriginal experience

The Romani, are a traditionally nomadic ethnic group, now living mostly in Europe and the Americas, they originated from the northern regions of the Indian subcontinent over 1000 years ago. 
 A widely dispersed indigenous, ethnic group, a film which realistically shows the culture of a modern community is the Yugoslavian film from Aleksandar Petrović ...

Skupljaci perja , I Even Met Happy Gypsies, (1967) AKA by the actual original Serbian title translation, 
The Feather Gatherers               

  The authenticity of  Skupljaci perja is highlighted by the use of genuine Gypsy melodies which originate exclusively from the films real village setting in northern Vojvodina.  and also the fact that the film was shot in a near-extinct Gypsy language called Romany, which required the film to carry subtitles even when released in Yugoslavia. The feather gathers refers to the small scale village industry that farms and plucks geese for the down feathers.     


The raw film depicts and captures a genuine gypsy atmosphere with a cast of colourful characters, who aside from the main stars are all local inhabitants. The film takes us into a foreign world, a culture rarely seen. Showing there's a real community among the gypsies a traditional world & lifestyle where outsiders dare to tread & are mostly not welcome.