SUKUNDIMI WALKS BEFORE ME

Australia / New Zealand

UPCOMING SCREENINGs

CinefestOZ

7pm Thursday 3 September at Orana Cinema Busselton

12.15pm Saturday 5 September at Orana Cinema Busselton

tix here

Dendy Canberra

6.30pm Wednesday 16 September, tix here.

Darwin International Film Festival

7pm Thursday 17 September, tix here

Cinema Nova (Melbourne)

4.40pm Saturday 19 September, tix here

Sun Yarraville (Melbourne)

2.30pm Sunday 20 September, tix here.

Thornbury Picturehouse (Melbourne)

5pm Sunday 20 September, tix here.

Palace Byron Bay

6pm, Monday 21 September, tix here

Dendy Southport (Gold Coast)

Tuesday 22 September, tix here

Govindas (Sydney)

Sunday 27 September, tix here

Dendy Coorparoo (Brisbane)

Sunday 27 September, tix here

New Farm Cinemas (Brisbane)

Monday 28 September

Dendy Newtown (Sydney)

Wednesday 30 September, tix here

Cremorne Orpheum (Sydney)

Thursday 1 October, tix here

The Sepik River is the mother line for Papua New Guinea communities.

Winding through mountains and rainforests, she is the crucial vertebrae connecting and supporting the region’s rare biodiversity and spiritual consciousness.

But her livelihood and her communities are threatened by the proposal of a copper-gold mine being built near her waters, which could extract, erode and pollute an environment that she has sustained for millennia.

The children of this river, led by Manu Peni, create a grassroots campaign to stop the mine from being built, resisting the forces of colonial bureaucracy and Western narratives of ‘development’ by invoking the Spirit of the river and indigenous knowledge.

Sukundimi Walks Before Me explores this existential fight through lyrical expressions of existence, resistance and life along the mother river.

Written by director Matasila Freshwater