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{{Infobox film
| name           = Jedda
| image          = Ngarla Kunoth (Rosalie Kunoth-Monks).jpg
| caption        = Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, who played the title role
| director       = [[Charles Chauvel (filmmaker)|Charles Chauvel]]
| producer       = Charles Chauvel
| writer         = Charles Chauvel<br>[[Elsa Chauvel]]
| narrator       = 
| starring       = [[Robert Tudawali]]<br>[[Ngarla Kunoth]]
| music          = [[Isador Goodman]]
| cinematography = Carl Kayser
| editing        = Alex Ezard<br>Jack Gardiner<br>[[Pam Bosworth]]
| studio         = Charles Chauvel Productions Ltd
| distributor    = [[Columbia Pictures]]
| released       = {{Film date|1955|01|03|premiere|1995|05|05|Australia|1956| | |UK|df=y}}
| runtime        = 101 mins (Aust)<br>61 mins (UK)
| country        = Australia
| language       = English
| budget         = £90,823<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18456325 |title=Chauval film cost £90,823. |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=3 December 1954 |page=9 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
}}

'''''Jedda''''', released in the UK as '''''Jedda the Uncivilised''''', is a 1955 Australian film written, produced and directed by [[Charles Chauvel (filmmaker)|Charles Chauvel]]. His last film, it is notable for being the first to star two [[Indigenous Australians|Aboriginal]] actors, [[Robert Tudawali]] and [[Rosalie Kunoth-Monks|Ngarla Kunoth]] (later known as Rosalie Kunoth-Monks) in the leading roles. It was also the first Australian feature film to be shot in colour.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/australia_%28Enciclopedia-del-Cinema%29/|title=Australia, enciclopedia del cinema|language=it|access-date=13 February 2021}}</ref>

''Jedda'' is often seen as an influential film in the development of Australian cinema and setting a new standard for future Australian films. It won more international attention than previous Australian films during a time when Hollywood films were dominating Australian cinema. Chauvel was nominated for the [[Golden Palm Award]] at the [[1955 Cannes Film Festival]]<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3702/year/1955.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Jedda |access-date=1 February 2009 |work=festival-cannes.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118215228/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3702/year/1955.html |archive-date=18 January 2012 }}</ref> but lost to [[Delbert Mann]] for ''[[Marty (film)|Marty]]''.