24 September 2025
COTA NT is thrilled to invite grandparents and grandparent carers and their young ones to celebrate the NT’s Grandparents Day on Sunday 26 October 2025 with a home-grown movie treat, KANGAROO.
Specially-priced tickets will help make movie treats happen at participating cinemas: Event Cinemas Casuarina, Event Cinemas Gateway Palmerston, Alice Springs Cinema and Katherine Cinema 3.
Tickets
Tickets include refreshment and cost $6.50 for adults, $3.50 for children 16 and under. Tickets are ONLY for grandparents/seniors caring for young children who are coming with their grandchildren.
Tickets are available via the COTA NT website ticketing system only. See here and select your preferred movie.
About the film
KANGAROO was filmed at The Kangaroo Sanctuary in Alice Springs and is a heart-warming family comedy about an ex-TV personality who becomes stranded in the outback town, where he teams up with an 11-year old girl to work together to rescue and rehabilitate orphaned joeys.
In 2023, the NT Government invested $1.2 million in the highly anticipated production which created about 150 local jobs and utilised about 100 local businesses during the course of filming. The story is inspired by the Territory’s own Chris Barnes, nicknamed “Brolga” who is the founder of the Kangaroo Sanctuary in Alice Springs.
NT Grandparents Day has been proudly supported by the Northern Territory Government since 2021.
