# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Maypilama: Keel Line of Creation - Melbourne screening
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 15 Oct, 2026 at 10:45 am (+11:00)
- **Event Description**: 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.

We're hoping to fill the cinema with people who care about families, communities, health, culture and meaningful social change, and I'd love your help.

🎬Get tickets: https://tickets.demand.film/event/13590

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
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/melbourne/maypilama-keel-line-of-creation-melbourne-screening/200030772340438
- **Event Categories**: Entertainment, health-wellness
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 5

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Melbourne
- **state**: VI
- **country**: Australia
- **location**: Cinema Nova
- **lat**: -37.7980385
- **long**: 144.9676666
- **full address**: Cinema Nova, 368 Lygon St, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia, Melbourne

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Maypilama: Keel Line of Creation - Melbourne screening being held?
  - **A:** Maypilama: Keel Line of Creation - Melbourne screening takes place on Thu, 15 Oct, 2026 at 10:45 am to Thu, 15 Oct, 2026 at 10:45 am at Cinema Nova, 368 Lygon St, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia, Melbourne.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Maypilama: Keel Line of Creation - Melbourne screening?
  - **A:** Maypilama: Keel Line of Creation - Melbourne screening is organized by PANDA.

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