

The New Boy
A mysterious new arrival disturbs a delicately balanced world in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival.
In a remote monastery in 1940s Australia, a mission for Aboriginal children is run by a renegade nun, Sister Eileen. A new charge is delivered in the dead of night – a boy who appears to have special powers. When the monastery takes possession of a precious relic, a large carving of Christ on the cross, the new boy encounters Jesus for the first time and is transfixed. However, the boy’s Indigenous spiritual life does not gel with the mission’s Christianity and his mysterious power becomes a threat. Sister Eileen is faced with a choice between the traditions of her faith and the truth embodied in the boy, in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
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- Box office
- $780.6K
- Language
- English
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Release dates
IndiaIN
- PremiereJio MAMI Film Festival27 Oct 2023
United StatesUS
- Theatrical (limited)23 May 2025
- Digital / OTT30 May 2025
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical12AInitially rated 15; downgraded on appeal15 Mar 2024
AustraliaAU
- PremiereMSydney Film Festival7 Jun 2023
- TheatricalM6 Jul 2023
- PremiereBirrarangga Film Festival16 Mar 2025
ChinaCN
- Premiere Beijing International Film Festival 18 Apr 2024
FranceFR
- PremiereCannes Film Festival19 May 2023
IrelandIE
- Theatrical12A15 Mar 2024
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical1218 Jul 2024
New ZealandNZ
- Digital / OTTM1 Sept 2023
- Theatrical (limited)MMāoriland Film Festival23 Mar 2024
PortugalPT
- Theatrical (limited)M/126 Jul 2023
SwedenSE
- Theatrical1129 Mar 2024
TaiwanTW
- PremiereGolden Horse Fantastic Film Festival14 Apr 2024
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The New Boy was released on 6 July 2023.
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1- C6/10
CinemaSerf
3/27/2024
Set against a backdrop of a strongly colonial and white Australia, we are rather violently introduced to a young, blonde, Aboriginal lad (Aswan Reid) who is conked out by a boomerang and awakens to find himself in the care of "Sister Eileen" (Cate Blanchett) and "Sister Mum" (Deborah Mailman) at a remote orphanage. She is pretty devout and he is very much in tune with nature - both people of faith, but not the same k…
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