What was the cost to David Gulpilil of leaving his people and his ancestral Arnhem Land homeland to dance across the silver screen and into Australia's heart as our most treasured Indigenous actor?

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When filmmaker Maggie Miles asked this question of one of the late actor's kin, she was greeted with a smile.

The moving story of David Gulpili's traditional burial celebration is told in a new documentary.

"He didn't leave," she was told. "He was called to another life, and he carried his culture with him wherever he went. It's not as if he went off and became John Wayne. In all of hi

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