YURLU | COUNTRY will be presented in a digital non-IMAX format

Join us for a special Q&A after the screening hosted by Jon Faine, with Peter Gordon (Gordon Legal), Yaara Bou Melhem (director/producer), Johnnell Parker (Banjima Traditional Owner) and Peter Garrett (activist, former politician, lead singer of Midnight Oil).

A vivid ode to Country and an intimate portrait of an Aboriginal Elder’s final year as he strives to preserve his culture and heal his homeland - the largest contaminated site in the Southern Hemisphere, Western Australia’s Pilbara region.

The devastating impact of the Wittenoom asbestos mines and the millions of tonnes of waste laced with deadly asbestos fibres has poisoned both land and people.

This powerful film follows Banjima Elder Maitland Parker as he lives with an aggressive cancer caused by asbestos exposure and confronts government inaction and corporate greed to help his people reconnect with and heal their ancestral lands.