Sukundimi Walks Before Me

<p style="text-align: left; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(71, 71, 71); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Special event with Q&amp;A with film protagonist, Manu Peni. 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.</p><p style="text-align: left; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(71, 71, 71); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">But her livelihood and her communities are threatened by the proposal of a huge copper-gold mine being built near her waters, which could extract, erode and pollute an environment that she has sustained for millennia.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: left; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(71, 71, 71); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">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.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: left; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(71, 71, 71); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><em style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Sukundimi Walks Before Me</em> explores this existential fight through lyrical expressions of existence, resistance and life along the mother river.</p><h4 style="text-align: left; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; clear: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-language-override: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Sukundimi Walks Before Me</em>&nbsp;is straight from the Melbourne Internationsal Film Festival and is nominated in the Documentary Australia Award for Australian Documentary and the Sustainable Future Award.</h4><br>DocumentaryPT1H33MCTCPGen
Matasila Freshwater
Lachlan McLeod
Maria Tanner
Kerry Warkia
David Elliot-Jones
Emmanuel Peni
Sukundimi Walks Before Me"Sukundimi Walks Before Me"

Showtimes

September 19, 3:50 pm

Thornbury Picture House