Event Info
Date and time
| Sunday 19 October 2025 | 7-9pm |
Join us for this in-person directors Q&A and tribute to David Gulpilil for our closing festival event.
JOURNEY HOME, DAVID GULPILIL
Before his passing in 2021, Yolŋu actor David Gulpilil made his family promise to return him to his Homeland of Gupulul in Arnhem Land.
This film follows his remarkable homecoming, as family undertake a four-thousand-kilometre journey by road, air and water, guided by Yolŋu law, song cycles and ancestral spirits to lay him to rest where his story began. Join us for a special Q&A with the filmmakers. Co-directed by Trisha Morton-Thomas and co-produced by Rachel Clements.
Join us for a special Q&A with co-director Trisha Morton-Thomas and local filmmaker Penny McDonald after the film!
Accompanying Short: Showing Melbourne to Maningrida
In 1973, only a couple of years after walking out of the bush to the red carpet of Cannes, a young David Gulpilil made his first film as a Director. The film, “Showing Melbourne to Maningrida” is the world through Gulpilil’s unique lens and what he has left us, as a document for all time, is an insight into his view of the two worlds that he walked between.
Sunday October 19, 2025
Doors Open: 6:30 pm
Screening Starts: 7:00 pm
Alice Springs Cinema