Our online screening of Girls Can’t Surf will be available from 6pm on Saturday 13 November AEDT.

The film will have a 48-hour viewing window and will remain available to watch until 6pm on Monday 15 November.

Feature Film: Girls Can’t Surf

Directed by Christopher Nelius

The untold story of how a band of renegade surfer girls in the 1980s fought to create their own professional sport, changing surf culture forever.

It’s the 1980s and the world of professional surfing is a circus of fluoro colours, peroxide hair and radical male egos. GIRLS CAN’T SURF follows the journey of a band of renegade surfers who took on the male-dominated professional surfing world to achieve equality and change the sport forever. Featuring surfing greats Jodie Cooper, Frieda Zamba, Pauline Menczer, Lisa Andersen, Pam Burridge, Wendy Botha, Layne Beachley and more, GIRLS CAN’T SURF is a wild ride of clashing personalities, sexism, adventure and heartbreak, with each woman fighting against the odds to make their dreams of competing a reality.

Accompanied by short film: Delama Warri by local filmmaker Sam Suendermann

Delama Warri shares the stories of female surfers in Wadawurrung Country, south-west Victoria. Meaning ‘to embrace the ocean’ in local Wadawurrung dialect this is one of the first surf films to feature local women and girl surfers, their talent, enthusiasm and journey on the waves. Connecting country, cross-generations of females and the ocean this film seeks to offer a raw and honest account of surfing in Victoria.