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Maypilama: Keel Line of Creation is a powerful documentary that follows Yolŋu Elder Ḻäwurrpa Maypilama's mission to return birthing to Country, celebrating Aboriginal women's knowledge, strength, culture and leadership while preserving cultural practices for future generations. At PANDA, we believe every parent deserves culturally safe, respectful and supportive care. This film offers a rare and inspiring opportunity to hear directly from community voices and deepen our understanding of what that can look like in practice.
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SYNOPSIS:
In a remote Yolŋu island community, Elder Ḻäwurrpa Maypilama is on a mission to return birthing to Country through the djäkamirr research project. With the assistance of non-Indigenous midwife-researcher Sarah, and patient Belgium cameraman Pat as witness, she navigates ancestral laws, colonial resistance and legal contradiction. Her journey becomes a powerful act of sovereignty and renewal, where women’s power, cultural survival and the future itself is adrift in uncertain waters. A reminder that the future is born from the stories we choose to carry forward.
This documentary was made from three years of collaborative filming during a participatory action research project based in Galiwin’ku, an island community in Yolŋu Country in Northeast Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia. Yolŋu are First Nations people sovereign to this region.
Learn more about the film and watch the trailer: https://www.panda.org.au/maypilama
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Luna Leederville, 155 Oxford St, Leederville WA 6007, Australia, Perth
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