Through extraordinary interviews and richly textured archive, KUMARANGK: Sacred Women's Business restores humanity to one of Australia's most divisive cultural conflicts, returning the story to the women who lived it.

2026
KUMARANGK: Sacred Women's Business
KUMARANGK: Sacred Women's Business
World Premiere.
Director
Runtime
91 Minutes
Country
Australia
Classification
Unclassified 15+
Few events have exposed the fault lines of modern South Australia as profoundly as the Hindmarsh Island bridge affair. Combining extraordinary character interviews with richly textured archival footage from the 1980s and 1990s, KUMARANGK: Sacred Women's Business plunges back into the political frenzy that engulfed the state, as Ngarrindjeri women's sacred knowledge collided with powerful development interests, forcing the courts to grapple with questions they were never designed to answer. Revealing Kumarangk as a living place where birth, burial and ceremony are inseparable, the film restores humanity to a conflict too often reduced to politics and headlines, returning this defining chapter of South Australian history to the women who lived it.

Film Credits
Director
Tracey Rigney
Year
2026
Country
Australia
Language
English & Ngarrindjeri
Subtitles
English
Type
Feature Documentary
Program Strand
Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund
Producer
Joshua Trevorrow & Carolyn Johnson
Cinematographer
Johanis Lyons-Reid
Editor
Tania Nehme & Andrea Lang
Music
Amanda Brown & Jerome Oosting
Film Source
Bonsai Films
Genre
Activism, Documentary, First Nations, Politics & Women
