NAIDOC Week Shorts

This year’s National NAIDOC Week marks 50 years of the week-long celebrations, and the theme, 'The Next Generation: Strength, Vision & Legacy', celebrates not only achievements of the past but the bright future ahead. Over the decades, NAIDOC week has grown into a powerful national celebration, a testament to the enduring strength of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

In keeping with this year's theme, our NAIDOC Shorts program kicks off with a suite of short films showcasing the breadth of Indigenous filmmaking, from factual to fantasy.

Following this program is the feature documentary Our Warrior: The Story of Robbie Thorpe. This film explores the legacy of Krauatungalung (Gurnai) and Djapwurrung (Gunditjmara) political activist Robbie Thorpe. Looking back on his childhood and early years in Melbourne's inner city suburb of Fitzroy, it explores Thorpe's role in the great legacy of Indigenous resistance to invasion. The powerful documentary explores the emergence of his radical politics as a controversial and uncompromising sovereign black activist.

– Jenna Warwick, Curator