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A vivid ode to Country and an intimate portrait of Aboriginal Elder Maitland Parker during his final year as he strives to heal the worst contaminated site in the Southern Hemisphere.

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Thank you to SIMA STUDIOS for the special mention at this year’s Social Impact Media Awards.

18.02.2026 01:25 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Thrilled with our win at the AACTA Awards last week where our sound team picked up Best Sound in a Documentary. Congratulations to Sam Hayward, Lauren Ligovich, Stuart Melvey and Cameron Grant for the win, and of course, Maitland Parker and his family for the honours.

09.02.2026 01:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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YURLU | COUNTRY took home two incredible awards last week - The Walkley Foundation for Journalism Documentary Award and the Australian Screen Sound Guild for Best Sound in a Documentary. We are pinching ourselves over here! These wins are dedicated to the Parker family and the Banjima community.

04.12.2025 03:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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YURLU | COUNTRY is out in cinemas! A complete list of screenings across Australia is available here: yurlucountry.com/screenings/

14.11.2025 03:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Join us for a special Q&A screening of YURLU | COUNTRY on Thursday 13 November at IMAX Naarm | Melbourne, with Jon Faine, Peter Garrett, Peter Gordon, Johnnell Parker and Yaara Bou Melhem. Book your tickets now, as there are only a limited few left.

Book via www.yurlucountry.com/screenings

10.11.2025 21:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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YURLU | COUNTRY has been selected for the UN Human Rights Film Tour!
 
A collaboration between FIFDH & UN Human Rights, a selection of films are screened every year around International Human Rights Day.

Thank you to our partners BNTAC, Storyboard, Shark Island Foundation & Documentary Australia.

06.11.2025 21:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“It’s not just about mines and magnates and history. It’s about a family. A very powerful man, who pursued a struggle for his mob to his life’s end.” - Craig Ritchie, Chair, Lowitja Institute.

YURLU | COUNTRY is in cinemas this month. Tickets available here: www.yurlucountry.com/screenings

06.11.2025 04:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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YURLU | COUNTRY is coming to cinemas! These screenings have been confirmed for NT, with more coming soon.

This unforgettable film is about a Banjima Elder's fight to heal his homeland, scarred by Australia’s Chernobyl-scale contamination.

Get tickets now: www.yurlucountry.com/screenings

05.11.2025 07:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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YURLU | COUNTRY is coming to cinemas! These screenings have been confirmed for SA, with more coming soon.

This unforgettable film is about a Banjima Elder's fight to heal his homeland, scarred by Australia’s Chernobyl-scale contamination.

Get tickets now: www.yurlucountry.com/screenings

05.11.2025 07:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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YURLU | COUNTRY is coming to cinemas! These screenings have been confirmed for QLD, with more coming soon.

This unforgettable film is about a Banjima Elder's fight to heal his homeland, scarred by Australia’s Chernobyl-scale contamination.

Get tickets now: www.yurlucountry.com/screenings

05.11.2025 07:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
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YURLU | COUNTRY is coming to cinemas! These screenings have been confirmed for VIC, with more coming soon.

This unforgettable film is about a Banjima Elder's fight to heal his homeland, scarred by Australia’s Chernobyl-scale contamination.

Get tickets now: www.yurlucountry.com/screenings

05.11.2025 07:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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YURLU | COUNTRY is coming to cinemas! These screenings have been confirmed for NSW, with more coming soon.

This unforgettable film is about a Banjima Elder's fight to heal his homeland, scarred by Australia’s Chernobyl-scale contamination.

Get tickets now: www.yurlucountry.com/screenings

05.11.2025 07:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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YURLU | COUNTRY is coming to cinemas! These screenings have been confirmed for WA, with more coming soon.

This unforgettable film is about a Banjima Elder's fight to heal his homeland, scarred by Australia’s Chernobyl-scale contamination.

Get tickets now: www.yurlucountry.com/screenings

05.11.2025 07:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Join us for a special Q&A screening of award-winning YURLU | COUNTRY, Saturday 15 Nov, Dendy Newtown, in Gadigal | Sydney.

This unforgettable film is about a Banjima Elder's fight to heal his homeland, scarred by Australia’s Chernobyl-scale contamination.

Book via: yurlucountry.com/screenings/

05.11.2025 07:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Join us for a special Q&A screening of award-winning YURLU | COUNTRY, Thursday 13 Nov, IMAX Melbourne, in Naarm | Melbourne.

This unforgettable film is about a Banjima Elder's fight to heal his homeland, scarred by Australia’s Chernobyl-scale contamination.

Book via: yurlucountry.com/screenings/

05.11.2025 07:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Join us for a special Q&A screening of award-winning YURLU | COUNTRY, Wednesday 12 Nov, Cinema Nova, in Naarm | Melbourne.

This unforgettable film is about a Banjima Elder's fight to heal his homeland, scarred by Australia’s Chernobyl-scale contamination.

Book via: yurlucountry.com/screenings/

05.11.2025 07:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Join us for a special Q&A screening of award-winning YURLU | COUNTRY, Monday 10 Nov, Windsor Cinema, in Boorloo | Perth.

This unforgettable film is about a Banjima Elder's fight to heal his homeland, scarred by Australia’s Chernobyl-scale contamination.

Book via: yurlucountry.com/screenings/

05.11.2025 07:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Join us for a special Q&A screening of award-winning YURLU | COUNTRY, Sunday 9 Nov, Luna Palace, in Boorloo | Perth.

This unforgettable film is about a Banjima Elder's fight to heal his homeland, scarred by Australia’s Chernobyl-scale contamination.

Book via: yurlucountry.com/screenings/

05.11.2025 07:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Join us for a special Q&A screening of award-winning YURLU | COUNTRY, Thursday 6 Nov, Ritz Cinemas, in Gadigal | Sydney.

This unforgettable film is about a Banjima Elder's fight to heal his homeland, scarred by Australia’s Chernobyl-scale contamination.

Book via: yurlucountry.com/screenings/

05.11.2025 07:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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YURLU | COUNTRY comes to USA audiences at @buffalofilm.org. This award-winning feature is a vivid ode to land and an intimate portrait of a First Nation’s Elder as he strives to heal his homelands.
Thur, Oct 16 - 11.30am
North Park Theatre
Link to tickets:
www.buffalofilm.org/events/yurlu...

22.09.2025 10:04 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Join us at Cinefest for our Q&A screenings of Yurlu | Country with Director Yaara Bou Melhem, Banjima Traditional Owner Coreen Parker and Banjima Native Title Aboriginal Corporation Board member Johnnell Parker - moderated by Jub Clerc and Jodie Bell.

🎟️ Tickets via cinefestoz.com/sessions/yur...

01.09.2025 00:04 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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YURLU | COUNTRY is coming to the Darwin International Film Festival. A deeply moving documentary chronicling Banjima Elder Maitland Parker’s final year - as he fights to heal his ancestral land.
Thurs 18th Sept, 7pm + Q&A
Thank you to Environment Centre NT
TIX:
www.diff.net.au/movie/yurlu-...

03.08.2025 23:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This September, YURLU | COUNTRY returns to WA where it all began, screening at CinefestOZ.

Join us to witness Banjima Elder Maitland Parker’s fight to #CleanUpWittenoom

📍5th & 7th Sept - Busselton
📍6th Sept - Margaret River

🎟️ Tickets via the link
cinefestoz.com/sessions/yur...

25.07.2025 02:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Award-winning YURLU | COUNTRY is coming to MIFF. Screening 20 & 22 August
Yaara Bou Melhem, with Coreen Parker and Johnnell Parker joining us in person.
🎟 Tickets via miff.com.au/program/film...

11.07.2025 21:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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As we mark NAIDOC 25, we throwback to the incredible @KarijiniExperience in the Pilbara, WA which features in the YURLU | COUNTRY feature documentary, made with First Nations Elder Maitland Parker. Support Banjima who are leading a @CleanUpWittenoom campaign to remediate their Native Title lands.

07.07.2025 03:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Great news from our international premiere in Auckland @docedge.bsky.social
🎟️ Book your tickets now via docedge.nz/events/yurlu...

04.07.2025 11:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A legacy carved into Country. A fight that echoes across generations.

YURLU | COUNTRY is now screening across Aotearoa 🇳🇿

Sun 6 Jul 3:45 PM Auckland 
Wed 9 Jul 6:15 PM Auckland 
Mon 21 Jul 6:15 PM Christchurch
Wed 23 Jul 6:15 PM Wellington

🎟️ Book now via https://docedge.nz/events/yurlu-country/

03.07.2025 01:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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🔥 Only ONE WEEK since our Sydney Film Festival announcement and 60% of tickets are already GONE!
Don’t miss Yurlu | Country on the big screen and see why ScreenHub named us as one of 23 Aussie films not to miss in 2025! 🎟️ Book now: www.sff.org.au/program/even...

#SFF2025 #ScreenHub #YurluCountry

13.05.2025 02:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yurlu Country Official Trailer 2025
Yurlu Country Official Trailer 2025 YouTube video by Illuminate Films

Yurlu | Country. This feature documentary from Australian Director/Producer Yaara Bou Melhem was co-created with Aboriginal Elder Maitland Parker and immerses us in his final year as he strives to heal the Southern Hemisphere’s worst contaminated site youtu.be/u4X0aSeqJds?... #MobSky #Wittenoom

07.05.2025 00:55 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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YURLU | COUNTRY will have its World Premiere 7 June at @sydfilmfest — a powerful documentary revealing Australia’s Chernobyl-scale disaster and an Aboriginal Elder’s fight to heal ‘Poison Country’ #CleanUpWittenoom #Banjima #Sydfilmfest

👉 Tix: www.sff.org.au/program/even...

👉 yurlucountry.com

07.05.2025 00:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0