First Nations Film Festival
Kwoorabup NAIDOC 2025
Denmark Arts is celebrating NAIODOC Week 2025 with another fabulous film festival, bringing Aboriginal and Tores Strait Islander stories to the community through thought provoking feature films and documentaries. This year's NAIDOC the theme is Next Generation: Strength, Vision, and Legacy and the two films being featured are a true celebration of this.
Come for an uplifting night of hot food and drinks, heartwarming stories and warm community connection as we yarn with Elders and senior leaders about their personal stories. Watch two brilliant documentaries: Spirit Stones (PG) and Zach's Ceremony (M), and experience these thought-provoking tales of legacy, strength and courage.
This event is supported by Denmark Shire, Denmark Community Foundation, Green Pantry, and the solid work of our community volunteers. It is part of the Kwoorabup NAIDOC 2025 Program.
This artwork is the winner for the NAIDOC 2025 Poster Competition, Ancestral Lines by Jeremy Morgan Worrall.
Film: Spirit Stones (PG)
Screen Time: 4:00pm - 5:30pm
About: Spirit Stones presents an historical Indigenous story about unexplained phenomena that occurred in the 1950’s across the South West of Western Australia, when stones fell for hours, days and weeks.
In a truly contemporary history, Noongar Elders reflect on the social and environmental conditions at the time of the falling stones to make meaning of the past and claim connection with these events and their country.
Beautifully filmed, the South West comes alive in a film not about facts, but about feeling the spirit of the country – the Noongar way.
https://spiritstones.com.au | Photo credit: Spirit Stones | Watch the Trailer
Film: Zac's Ceremony (M)
Screen time: 6:00pm -8:00pm
About: Somewhere between tribal tradition and city life, a young boy must learn what it takes to become a man and awaken the warrior within.
Zach’s Ceremony is an extraordinary, feature-length documentary captured over ten years that shows one boy’s journey to manhood in a complex, emotionally driven story. Its themes are universal: that of family and connection but also explores the question of what it means to be a modern man belonging to the oldest living culture on earth.
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www.zacsceremony.com | Photo credit: Fan Force | Watch the Trailer
