MOVIE | Journey Home, David Gulpilil trailer – JOURNEY HOME, DAVID GULPILIL will screen in cinemas around Australia from 30 October.
Narrated by Hugh Jackman and with Baker Boy as the film’s Cultural Storyteller, the film takes audiences on a journey to remote Australia for a celebration of life like you’ve never seen before.
When Australia’s most renowned Indigenous actor David Gulpilil passed away far from his Homeland, his family struggled against huge logistical challenges to fulfill his final wish, to bury him on his Homeland of Gupulul in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, over four and a half thousand kilometres away.
A Yolŋu man, David Gulpilil was an acclaimed actor who lived a tribal existence in Arnhem Land’s Arafura Swamp before starring in his first film ‘Walkabout’ which screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 1971.
He was the first Australian First Nations actor to blaze a trail internationally and constantly navigated two-worlds, yet the deeper side of his Yolŋu culture was rarely in the spotlight.
As David Gulpilil journeys back to the place of his birth, we’re given rare insight into Yolŋu culture as his family travel with him across many months as they wait for the right seasonal conditions, journeying over four and a half thousand kilometres by planes, boats, on foot, and by helicopter.
This final chapter of David Gulpilil’s incredible story, where ancestral Djan’kawu sisters are invoked to mark the spot for his grave, and clan leaders enact timeless song cycles to guide his spirit safely back to the place of its beginning, is a remarkable homecoming.
JOURNEY HOME, DAVID GULPILIL is directed by Maggie Miles and Trisha Morton-Thomas and is a Savage Films & Brindle Films production supported by Screen Australia and National Indigenous Television in association with Screen Territory, VicScreen and Madman Entertainment.
JOURNEY HOME, DAVID GULPILIL will open in Australian cinemas on 30October 2025.
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MOVIE | Journey Home, David Gulpilil trailer
