Goopi and Bagha are two wise fools; one lives to sing and the other to play the drum. Despite their acute ineptness, their passion for music knows no bounds. When the villagers cannot bear to listen to them anymore, both are banished to the same forest. The two hapless souls sing and play together only to be surrounded by melancholic ghosts who they enchant with their peculiar musical talent. As a gift, they acquire four boons from the king of ghosts. They use three, but one boon is still owed to them and will be granted by the ghost king when they need to use it – and so begins the story of Goopi and Bagha.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and emerging. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
