Winner of Peace

Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa is a first-generation Australian Sikh from Perth. In the film she's 24, a spoken word artist, and a youth commissioner with the Victorian Multicultural Commission. Her mum named her Sukhjit. It means winner of peace.

Spoken word started as a way to get people to listen. The film moves between the stage and the kitchen at home. She talks about racism she's lived through: names thrown at her brother, a teen ripping off her uncle's turban, a ute throwing a rotten peach at her dad. Her family has been at home in Australia for 150 years.

She still cares what her community thinks of her. She still uses the stage to say how she wants to be treated. The film follows this girl from Perth on a mission to leave this earth better than we found it.