BFF at the NFSA

  • Opening Night - Bones of Crows

    Thursday 20th June 6.00pm | Arc Cinema, McCoy Circuit Acton

    Removed from their family home and forced into Canada’s residential school system, Cree musical prodigy Aline and her siblings are plunged into a struggle for survival.

  • Don't Bury Me Without Ivan

    Friday 21st June 6.00pm | Arc Cinema, McCoy Circuit Acton

    Based on a true story of a friendship between the Russian artist of the famous painting “Shaman” Ivan Popov and the Yakut Stepan Beresekov, who suffered from lethargic sleep.

  • Windcatcher

    Saturday 22nd June 1.00pm | Arc Cinema, McCoy Circuit Acton

    A ten-year-old Aboriginal boy and his friends join forces to battle a group of grade-five bullies and win a school sports day title.

  • Whose story is it anyway?

    Saturday 22nd June 3.30pm | Arc Cinema, McCoy Circuit Acton

    Join our International screen leaders in a discussion that explores the idea of Story Sovereignty

  • A Boy Called Piano

    Saturday 22nd June 6.00pm | Arc Cinema, McCoy Circuit Acton

    “I began in innocence, newborn, a blank page. The story was written, the story of thousands of children has to be heard. Our History must be faced. May the truth set us free.” Fa’amoana John Luafutu.

  • Kyindoo Wilam

    Sunday 23rd June 1.00pm | Arc Cinema, McCoy Circuit Acton

    Kyindoo Wilam (Learning Place): A selection of animations and short films from across the world.

  • Closing Night - Muru

    Sunday 23rd June 3.00pm | Arc Cinema, McCoy Circuit Acton

    Inspired by actual events, MURU is the story of a local Police Sergeant 'Taffy' Tawharau, who must choose between his badge and his people, when the Government launches an armed raid through his Ruatoki community on a school day.