Off Country is a candid documentary series which follows the lives of seven Indigenous students over a year at the prestigious Geelong Grammar School, grappling with family tragedy, mental health, and identity issues.
Series One, Episode Three:
Covid-19 has shut the school down and all students are remote learning. For Tahlia, lockdown brings her closer to her family in Darwin, but for Sunny it puts his year 12 exams under more pressure.
Wrestling with their conflicting identities as students move between boarding life and home life, the series creates a historic record of one of Australia’s key Indigenous education pathways and a complex portrait of what it is to be a First Nations child in Australia today.
Driven by the students’ stories and told entirely in their own words, Off Country combines personal observational storytelling and features intimate perspectives of contemporary First Nations youth alongside their personal educational experiences.
Off Country will be subtitled in Arabic, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean on SBS On Demand. Off Country will also air on SBS later this year.
