Critically acclaimed and internationally successful, Ten Canoes won six AFI Awards in 2006 and the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, an honour that is bestowed upon films regarded as having particular significance for the art form. Directed by Rolf de Heer, Ten Canoes is an invitation to glimpse the ancient world of the Yolngu people, through a combination of ethnographically inspired narrative, juxtaposed with ancient Indigenous cultural beliefs and traditions. The film tells two stories, differentiated by telling one in colour and the other in black and white, that are blended by the environment of the Northern Arnhem Land swamps. In the first black and white story, a young man called Dayindi (played by Jamie Gulpulil, son of David Gulpilil) takes part in his first hunt for goose eggs in the Arafura swamp. His older brother, Minygululu, knows that Dayindi fancies Minygululu's young and pretty third wife and tells him a story about the old laws in order to teach him 'the proper way'. The story delves into a mythical past, a cautionary tale of love, kidnapping, sorcery, mayhem and revenge gone wrong. The second story bursts into colour and is set in a much older time, with most of the parts played by the actors from the first story. In this story, Jamie Gulpilil plays Yeeralparil, who fancies the third wife of the warrior Ridjimiraril. When Ridjimiraril's second wife, Nowalingu disappears, he suspects a stranger who has been seen near the camp. By mistake, he spears the stranger but it's the wrong man. Ridjimiraril must face the deceased man's relatives in a ritual payback. The collaboration between filmmaker de Heer and the Ramingining community is one that attempts to tackle the cultural gulf between western concepts and language and Indigenous cultural and storytelling concepts. Ten Canoes is a collaborative work initiated by the people of Ramingining to share their private world with a wider audience in order to sustain their own cultural traditions. (This Program Contains Adult Themes, Moderate Violence And Naturalistic Nudity)