Warning : This story contains the name and image of an Indigenous person who has died.

FILM

Journey Home, David Gulpilil ★★★½

(PG) 88 minutes

It’s been almost four years since the death of the great Yolngu actor, dancer and storyteller David Gulpilil. His extraordinary film career began in his teens when he was “discovered” by the British director Nicolas Roeg, who cast him in a starring role in the 1971 drama Walkabout .

Gulpilil, who was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2017, spent his last years primarily in the town of Murray Bridge, south of Adelaide. However, as his eldest son Jida Gulpilil testifies in this documentary, his dying wish was to be buried in accordance with tradition in his homeland of Gupulul in East Arnhem Land, near the sacred waterhole of Marayuwu, from which

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