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    Araatika: Rise Up! review – Larissa Behrendt’s documentary dares to believe in a better Australia

    Nov 15, 2021 3 minutes

    It’s been a wonderful year for documentaries about Indigenous Australian artists, with Firestarter: Story of Bangarra charting the evolution of the magical Bangarra Dance Theatre and My Name is Gulpilil presenting a portrait, in the spirit of a living wake, of the great Yolŋu actor David Gulpilil.

    Now comes director Larissa Behrendt’s Araatika: Rise Up! – which isn’t about artists but certainly about creative expression, poised at the intersection of art and sport, following a group of NRL players as they create the First Nations equivalent of

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