Word: minygululu
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...subtitles). But in a film set before Western contact - where young warrior Dayindi (Gulpilil's son Jamie) hunts for goose eggs while being told Dreamtime stories - Ganalbingu, the language of the "magpie goose people," rules. Dayindi has been coveting his older brother's young wife, and the cautionary tale Minygululu (Peter Minygululu) offers his brother while stripping trees for bark and building canoes ultimately weaves back into their own. "People talk about, What is a white director doing making an indigenous story? But I'm not," insists De Heer, 54. "They're telling the story, largely...
...Canoes ("I love it dearly - I look at it and think, This is a small miracle"), De Heer is just as proud of the effect the film will have on the lives of the Yolngu. "One of the great things at the end of the shoot was that Minygululu had picked out the tree that he was going to make his canoe from the next year," says the director, "and he'd picked out the route of his journey." For audiences too, Ten Canoes will map out new realms of understanding...
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