Reconciliation week at the National Film and Sound Archive in Acton

Overview

Reflections on Australia's past and present are offered in two powerful First Nations stories. Coinciding with Reconciliation Week, One Mind, One Heart (2025) follows First Nations-led practices of shared decision-making and cultural renewal and focuses on one community's effort to return a historic Yirrkala bark petition to Yolngu country. A Q&A with director Larissa Behrendt follows. High Ground (2020) confronts Australia's frontier past, following a pursuit that exposes buried atrocities and complex loyalties in post–World War I Arnhem Land. Guided by Elder Witiyana Marika, the film presents a fictionalised retelling of true events. Director Steven Johnson joins audiences for a post-screening Q&A.