Ngalu Warrawi Marri Film Series
This Reconciliation Week, enjoy a showcase of First Nations cinema, featuring compelling stories of kinship, resilience and cultural legacy.
Please note: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be advised there are images depicting a person who is deceased.
This Reconciliation Week, enjoy the Ngalu Warrawi Marri Film Series, a free cinematic celebration of First Nations storytelling. This year's lineup of films explores the power of kinship, community resilience and cultural legacy through three distinct genres and viewpoints.
Book your tickets now to immerse yourself in this curated series of first-hand perspectives and histories.
Please be advised some seats in the Theatre have obstructed views. There is no allocated seating, it will be on a first come, first served basis.
Sweet Country
© Village Roadshow Limited, Australia
Saturday 30 May, 10.15am - 12.10pm
2017 | MA | 113 mins
Directed by Warwick Thornton
It’s 1929 on the vast, desert-like, Eastern Arrernte Nation lands that are now known as the Central Australian outback. Sam Kelly, a middle-aged Aboriginal man, works the land of a kind preacher, Fred Smith. After an ill-tempered bully arrives in town and Kelly kills him in self-defence, he and his wife go on the run as a posse gathers to hunt him down.
Top End Wedding
© Village Roadshow Limited, Australia
Saturday 30 May, 12.55pm - 2.45pm
2019 | M | 102 mins
Directed by Wayne Blair
Lauren and Ned are engaged and deeply in love, but as their big day nears, turmoil strikes. Lauren's mother has gone AWOL in remote landscapes of far north Australia, and the couple has just ten days to reunite her parents and pull off their dream wedding.
Wash My Soul in the River's Flow
© Madman Entertainment
Saturday 30 May, 2.55pm - 4.30pm
2012 | PG | 90 mins
Directed by Philippa Bateman
Go behind the scenes, and onto the stage of renowned musicians and activists, Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter. A cinematic reinvention of their legendary concert, this film is a portrait of artists at the peak of their powers and a profoundly moving story of loss, love and what it means to truly come home.