Country Arts SA pays respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and recognises their continuing connection and spiritual relationship to these lands, waters and skies. We are committed to listening and helping care for Country, and to safeguard, share and celebrate First Nations’ living cultures.
Nunga Screen 2025
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Nunga Screen celebrates First Nations’ culture, stories and language through film; sharing stories of history, healing, belonging, community and connection to Country. The program consists of various short films across both scripted and unscripted documentary formats from First Nations filmmakers. Roughly half of the 90-minute program is suitable and engaging for young viewers and can be varied to suit any audience.
Nunga Screen runs annually between Reconciliation Week and NAIDOC Week.
Film program announced early 2025.
Please note, 1pm and 7pm screenings after interval are not suitable for children.
Image: WILD DOG DREAMING. Photography: Colleen Raven Strangways.
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For Schools
Nunga Screen has school screenings in Whyalla, Port Pirie, Renmark and Mount Gambier. Fill out the form below to book.
For further information contact Country Arts SA Education at [email protected]
Price
Free
Age guide
Years 3 – 9
Curriculum Links
Creative Arts, Drama, English, Humanities & Social Sciences
Program
For schools we select films appropriate for all ages, learn more about the films and filmmakers by downloading the Schools Program.
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2025 Program
Eddies Lil’ Homies – Episode 1 Yoinks
Filmmaker: Eddie Betts
Duration: 12 minutes
When the kids fall under the spell of Yoinks, a hand-held computer game from the olden days that Tal found in the hard rubbish, it’s up to Eddie and Junior to try and rescue them – before they all become ‘Yoinkified’!
Noongar Bedtime Stories – Kodj
Filmmaker: Brooke Collard
Duration: 6 minutes
Ivy and Steven meet up with Uncle Koodah to learn how to make a “kodj” (traditional axe) using science. A kodj is very important to them as their grandmother comes from a town called “Kojonup” meaning “place of kodj” and it represents their traditional homelands.
Craitbul – A Journey Across Boandik Country
Filmmaker: Aunty Michelle Jacquelin-Furr
Duration: 7 minutes
Craitbul – A Journey Across Boandik Country is a Creation Story of the Boandik people of the South-East of South Australia and describes in story form the eruptions of the volcanoes in the Berrin (Mount Gambier) region, which were witnessed by the Boandik ancestors.
Wiradjuri Star Dreaming
Filmmaker: Jack Steele
Duration: 5 minutes
Since the beginning of time, the Wiradjuri have looked to the stars for guidance. The stars are a map for life. They show us when and where to hunt, and how to find our way home. Wiradjuri Elder and cultural knowledge holder Doug Sutherland takes us on a tour through the stars as seen by Wiradjuri people for the last 60,000 years.
Barani
Filmmaker: Jake Duczynski
Duration: 7 minutes
Barani is a bittersweet narrative set in Warrane (Sydney Cove) 500 years ago, juxtaposing humanity’s current existence in the Anthropocene with a time of
harmony between humans and nature. The story, rich in historical and cultural value, prompts audiences to reconsider the history of the land under their feet.
Kumarangk – The Hindmarsh Island Bridge
Filmmaker: Josh Trevorrow
Duration: 8 minutes
In the 1980’s, developers proposed a bridge to Kumarangk (Hindmarsh Island) starting a decade long fight against the ensuing desecration of a sacred site for the Ngarrindjeri women of South Australia. While the story was often national news fodder for newspapers and nightly news, the women and their legacy has largely been forgotten, except by Ngarrindjeri People.
Wild Dog Dreaming
Filmmaker: Jacob Boehme
Duration: 26 minutes
Wild Dog Dreaming tells the story of a cheeky boy cursed to walk the earth as a gadli (dingo). Banished and alone, gadli travels the east coast of Guuranda, the Narungga name for Yorke Peninsula.
Second Chance
Filmmaker: Thibul Nettle
Duration: 18 minutes
When a crime novelist seeking solitude to escape her impending divorce books a remote cottage, she’s shocked to discover it’s owned by her high school sweetheart—a former athlete whose heart she once broke. As old feelings resurface over one fateful weekend, they must confront their past, their regrets,
and the possibility of a second chance at love.
Mysterious Maiden of Montefiores
Filmmaker: Travis Akbar
Duration: 12 Minutes
In this darkly comedic exploration of historical hypocrisy, The Mysterious Maiden of Montefiores unravels the absurdity of colonial narratives. When two self-important settlers, Samuel and Benjamin, cross paths in the Australian bush, they discover they’re both vying for the affections of the same woman, the enigmatic “Mysterious Maiden”.
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Can’t attend a free screening?
Make a Nunga Screen Corporate booking to share these First Nations stories in your workplace. Available from May 26 – August 13, Nunga Screen makes a perfect addition to your organisation’s reconciliation activities. Register your interest below for more information.
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