Wuchak
Arty flick about survival in the Outback and coming-of-age
A teenage girl (Jenny Agutter) and her little brother get stuck in the Outback, but receive assistance by an aboriginal boy (David Gulpilil) on a walkabout, a rite of passage into manhood.
Directed by Nicolas Roeg, Walkabout (1971) is an arty cult flick that plays like a Terrence Malick film and no doubt influenced his style (since it came out two years before Malicks feature film debut with Badlands). Agutter was only 16 during shooting while her character is 14, according to Roeg.
The themes about the beauty of nature vs. man-made desecration and the clash of the primitive with the cultured & the problems of communication thereof were probably fresh at the time but ...