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SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Australian movie "Samson and Delilah," about the plight of many Aboriginal communities, won the country's top film award Saturday, another major prize this year after it scored honors at the Cannes Film Festival.

The film swept the Australian Film Institute (AFI) awards which were presented at a televised gala in Melbourne, with its director, Warwick Thornton, taking home the award for best direction as well as for best original screenplay.

Thornton, who was raised in Alice Springs in the heart of Australia, had cast two non-actor children in the lead roles, and both -- Marissa Gibson and Rowan McNamara -- received the AFI's young actor award.