Story by Monotone
3 June 2026
Yurlu | Country: Top pick for 2025
Yurlu | Country is, most intimately, a film about a particular place and a particular person.
We follow one year of Matiland Parker’s life, an indigenous (Banjima eldar) fighting against a mining conglomerate Hancock Prospecting that poisoned his people and his ancestral lands, as he deals with his own asbestos-induced cancer. Maitland does all that he can to work through the bureaucratic system that prevents indigenous people access to their own land. To tell this story, to plead to the masses, Maitland allows the audience into the most vulnerable parts of his life, his health, his work, and his impending death.
