Homeland Story

The film charts the Donydji community’s transition from nomadic life to the digital age, from the 1960’s to the present day. One family is featured, across three generations, from the traditional elder Dhulutarama, who still knew how to make stone tools, to his grand-daughter Joanne Yindiri Guyula, who teaches at the Donydji school. It is a moving portrait of the family’s struggle to preserve their culture and remain on their Homeland despite the severe obstacles they face: sub-standard education, deplorable service delivery, lack of job opportunities for the youth, inadequate government policy, bureaucratic mismanagement and pressure from mining interests.