Radiance (film)

Three aboriginal sisters are reunited at their family home in northern Australia for their mothers funeral. Middle sister Mae (Trisha Morton-Thomas) is bitter over the fact that she had to remain at home to look after their mother, whose health was failing. Cressy (Rachael Maza), left to become a famous opera singer, while the youngest sister, wild child Nona (Deborah Mailman), is now pregnant. Secrets, lies and long-held resentments arise as the siblings renew acquaintances.

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Radiance is a 1998 Australian independent film. It is the first feature film by Aboriginal director Rachel Perkins about three indigenous sisters who reunite for their mothers funeral. The film is based on the play written by Louis Nowra.

With the death of their mother, two sisters (Nona and Cressy) return to their childhood home in Northern Australia where their third sister, Mae, lived looking after their mother. The funeral happens and the three find themselves together in the house for the first time in years. With time to talk, drink and fight, past hurts are revealed and family secrets come out.