Maypilama: Keel Line of Creation
PANDA is proud to be supporting the screening of Maypilama in Perth, Melbourne, and Brisbane. You can get tickets here.
After screening the first film Djakamirr about birthing on country in 2025, PANDA is proud to be supporting the screening of Maypilama: Keel Line of Creation in Perth, Melbourne, and Brisbane.
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.
Screening details
General admission: $24.00 (additional booking fee $1.95 per ticket)
Western Australia
Tuesday the 22nd of September, 11:00am
Luna Leederville, 155 Oxford St, Leederville, Western Australia, 6007, Australia
Victoria
Thursday the 15th of October, 10:45am
Cinema Nova, 380 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053, Australia
Queensland
Friday the 9th of October, 11:00am
University of Southern Queensland, Ipswich campus
Tickets available soon
Watch the trailer
