Rhymes for Young Ghouls

The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) is proud to present the Australian premiere of Rhymes for Young Ghouls from celebrated short filmmaker, Jeff Barnaby.

Barnaby makes his feature debut in a film that the Toronto Film Festival dubbed a 'righteously furious, surreal thriller." Exuding extraordinary visual flair, Rhymes for Young Ghouls is an inventive portrait of a young woman deserving of the title -hero' (no -ine' required).

It's 1976 and Alia (Kawennahere Devery Jacobs) is a street smart teenager, deeply immersed in her family's drug business. Living on the Red Crow Mi'qMaq reservation, her earnings keep both the corrupt Indian Agent Popper satisfied and Alia out of the prison that is St. Dymphna's school. When her stash is stolen and her father returns from his latest stint in prison, Alia must go head to head with Popper.