“I live in my land, and land, it lives with me. We live together.” Madman Films in Australia has revealed an official trailer for a documentary film titled Journey Home, David Gulpilil, made by filmmakers Maggie Miles & Trisha Morton-Thomas. It premiered at the 2025 Sydney Film Festival last month, and next plays at the Melbourne Film Festival in Australia. Everyone in cinema knows his face – Aboriginal actor David Gulpilil, who famously starred in Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout. Gulpilil passed away in 2021 (at age 68) but it was important to return his body back to his homeland up in Northern Australia. Gulpilil’s life & work were previously explored in his own words in Darlene Johnson’s Gulpilil: One Red Blood and Molly Reynolds’s My Name Is Gulpilil; in this final chapter of his singular story, narrated by Hugh Jackman and Yolngu hip-hop artist Baker Boy, the filmmakers portray the man through the eyes of his community. Intimately chronicling the epic trip through to its culmination in a Yolngu funeral ceremony, the doc serves as a fitting tribute to a legend of Australian cinema. This looks like a deeply moving and meaningful film – take a look. // Continue Reading ›
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