Songs Inside

Winner of Best Documentary at the Sydney and Adelaide film festivals, and most recently, Australia's richest film prize, the CinefestOZ Film Prize, Songs Inside is the highly affecting story of a group of incarcerated women, who sign up to learn an instrument and write their own songs as part of a music program in an Australian prison, led by Barkindji singer-songwriter Nancy Bates. The women, who come to the program low in confidence and self-worth, are quickly thrown into a world of creativity and blossoming self-determination. But the process also opens up deep scars around trauma and addiction, threatening a once-in-a-lifetime prison performance alongside the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.