- Closed Captions (CC) available for Milpirri: Winds of Change, Captain Fantastic, Ten Canoes, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Chef, Birdman, Wik Vs. Queensland
- Audio Description (AD) available for When The River Runs Dry, Chef, Birdman and A United Kingdom
MONDAY 24 MAY
When The River Runs Dry
11:35am, NITV
PG, AD
Australia, 2019
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Rory McLeod
What’s it about?
A documentary about one of Australia’s worst environmental disasters, the mass fish kills at Menindee, in Western NSW. This film calls upon experts, Indigenous elders and locals, to unravel the cause and effects of this catastrophe on people and wildlife.
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TUESDAY 25 MAY
Milpirri: Winds of Change
12:05pm, NITV
PG, CC
Australia, 2014
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Stewart Carter
What’s it about?
The remote Warlpiri community of Lajamanu are preparing for Milpirri, an exciting cross-cultural event. Milpirri clouds bring rain from the collision of opposites, reminding us all that to find our way ‘back home’ we need to listen to ‘ngurra’ (home) – the country we share.
Ghosts of Ole Miss
8:30pm, NITV (repeats Wednesday 26 May, 1:00pm)
PG
USA, 2012
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Fritz Mitchell
What’s it about?
In the fall of 1962, a dramatic series of events made Civil Rights history and changed a way of life. On the eve of James Meredith becoming the first African-American to attend class at the University of Mississippi, the campus erupted into a night of rioting between those opposed to the integration of the school and those trying to enforce it.
Streaming after broadcast at SBS On Demand:
Captain Fantastic
12:40am, SBS VICELAND
M, CC
USA, 2016
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Language: English, Esperanto
Director: Matt Ross
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, George MacKay, Samantha Isler, Annalise Basso
What’s it about?
Raised in the forest and living off the grid, six children venture out into the world for the first time after their recently widowed father (Mortensen, in an Oscar-nominated performance) takes them on a road trip. Also starring 1917‘s George MacKay.
THURSDAY 27 MAY
My Survival as an Aboriginal
2:00pm, NITV (repeats Friday 28 May, 10:50pm)
M
Australia, 1979
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Essie Coffey
What’s it about?
Essie Coffey, a Murrawarri woman and black activist, shows the conflicts of living as an Aboriginal under white domination. The first Australian film directed by an Indigenous woman.
Ten Canoes
8:50pm, NITV (repeats Friday 28 May, 12:30pm)
M, CC
Australia, 2006
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Language: Ganalbingu
Director: Rolf de Heer
Starring: Richard Birrinbirrin, Jamie Gulpilil, Crusoe Kurddal
What’s it about?
An elder of an Indigenous tribe in the Northern Territory realises a young man in the group covets the beautiful young wife of another elder. To teach him the proper way, the elder tells the youngster a story from the mythical past, about a man who had no wife. Directed by Rolf de Heer (The Tracker, Bad Boy Bubby).
NOTE: No catch-up at SBS On Demand
Twelve Canoes
10:35pm, NITV (repeats Friday 28 May, 11:20am)
PG
Australia, 2009
Genre: Drama, Omnibus Film
Language: English
Director: Rolf de Heer, Molly Reynolds
What’s it about?
A series of short films that paint a compelling portrait of the people, history, culture and place of the Yolngu people whose homeland is the Arafura Swamp of north-central Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.
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FRIDAY 28 MAY
Rabbit-Proof Fence
8:00pm, NITV (repeats Saturday 29 May, 10:00am)
PG, CC
Australia, 2002
Genre: History, Adventure
Language: Walmajarri, English
Director: Phillip Noyce
Starring: Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, Kenneth Branagh, Deborah Mailman
What’s it about?
Based on the true story of three young Aboriginal girls, Molly (Sampi) and Daisy (Sansbury) and their cousin, Gracie (Monaghan), who in 1931, were forcibly removed from their mothers and their home in Jigalong and moved over fifteen hundred miles away, as a part of official ‘White Australia’ Government policy. Molly leads her younger sister and cousin on a brave escape and in a bid to find their way home, following, on foot, the rabbit-proof fence that cuts across the Gibson Desert and towards Jigalong.
Heart Coming Home
9:50pm, NITV (repeats Saturday 29 May, 11:40am)
PG
Australia, 2002
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Sally Godrick
What’s it about?
In 1945 a teacher, Noel White came to the Carrolup Native Settlement in south-west WA. The children in his classroom were ‘stolen’ and confined at Carrolup with little or no family contact.
SATURDAY 29 MAY
The Deep
12:00pm, SBS VICELAND
M
Iceland, 2012
Genre: Drama
Language: Icelandic
Director: Baltasar Kormakur
Starring: Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Stefán Hallur Stefánsson, Joi Johannsson
What’s it about?
On a cold night a few miles off the coast of Iceland in March 1984, a fishing boat sank with all of its men. Miraculously surviving after five hours in the ocean, the exhausted young hulk washes ashore – only to find himself on a deadly lava field.
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Croker Island Exodus
7:30pm, NITV
PG
Australia, 2012
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Steven McGregor
What’s it about?
1942, Croker Island, as Japanese bomb the North, 95 Aboriginal children and their missionary carers make a remarkable journey to safety 3000 miles across the Australian continent.
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Dhakiyarr vs. the King
8:55pm, NITV (repeats Wed 27th Jan, 11:00am)
PG
USA, 2004
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Allan Collins, Tom Murray
What’s it about?
In 1933, on Woodah Island in remote northeast Arnhem Land, Yolngu leader Dhakiyarr speared a policeman, Constable McColl, who had chained up his wife. This was Dhakiyarr’s land and that was his law. On the advice of missionaries, he went to Darwin to explain his actions and his people’s ways to the Northern Territory Supreme Court. Seventy years after the controversial murder trial and his subsequent disappearance, Dhakiyarr’s descendants seek to restore what was denied him: his honour.
Streaming after broadcast at SBS On Demand:
Chef
9:25pm, SBS
M, AD, CC
USA, 2014
Genre: Comedy
Language: English
Director: Jon Favreau
Starring: Jon Favreau, Robert Downey Jr., John Leguizamo, Scarlett Johansson, Dustin Hoffman
What’s it about?
Carl Casper (Favreau) is a disillusioned chef fed up with his restaurant’s management, poor reviews and lack of creativity. After an online battle with a well-known critic leads to further frustration, Carl decides to leave and go solo as a food truck operator in a bid to rediscover his flair for cooking.
Takeover
9:55pm, NITV
M
Australia, 1979
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Director: David MacDougall, Judith MacDougall
What’s it about?
This documentary observes the profound effect on an Aboriginal community of political and bureaucratic decisions made far away. Although specific to time and place, the film is timeless and universal in its observations of a conflict between an Indigenous minority and a powerful government.
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
11:30pm, SBS
MA15+, AD, CC
USA, 2014
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Language: English
Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Starring: Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts
What’s it about?
A fading actor (Keaton) best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and family prove more difficult than expected. Winner of Best Picture at the 2015 Academy Awards.
NOTE: No catch-up after broadcast at SBS On Demand
A United Kingdom
1:30am, SBS
PG, AD, CC
UK, 2016
Genre: Drama, History
Language: English
Director: Amma Asante
Starring: David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike, Tom Felton, Jack Davenport
What’s it about?
The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments. Seretse and Ruth defied family, Apartheid and empire – their love triumphed over every obstacle flung in their path and in so doing they transformed their nation and inspired the world.
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SUNDAY 30 MAY
Wik vs Queensland
8:30pm, NITV
PG, CC
Australia, 2018
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Dean Gibson
What’s it about?
This landmark feature documentary portrays the historical decision in 1996 by the High Court of Australia, granting native title to the Wik People of Cape York, and the demonisation that followed at the hands of politicians and media. With unique access to the key players of that moment in history, and featuring never-before seen footage of the two (then) young lawyers, Noel Pearson and Marcia Langton, Wik Vs Queensland tells a very personal story set against the backdrop of a tumultuous time in Queensland’s history.
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