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“We've been here many times before and we'll be here many times after. Not always in human form, so everything is an ancestor.”

— Paul Gordon

Watch the trailer for In the Circle of Life and enter your email to view the FULL film. You’ll be invited to make a donation of any amount (even $0), with the option to upgrade to the 12-film journey and talk series.

Available in the following languages: English, Czech, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian.

The Vision

Our vision for The Eternal Song documentary series is to honor Indigenous resilience, illuminate sacred wisdom held for humanity and Earth, and invite healing across communities facing trauma and colonial erasure.

About the film

Across the continent now called Australia, ancient songlines remain alive with ancestral memory. This film walks with First Nations Elders, healers and artists as they navigate the history of colonization through the enduring strength of their culture.

The Eternal Song

12 FILM SERIES

Over the next two years, we will release a total of 12 full-length films featuring different indigenous traditions. Each film opens a portal into the ancestral wisdom of these cultures, calling us to remember, grieve, heal, and act.

The Eternal Song

LAND: EARTH

92 Minutes • WATCH NOW

Mauri

LAND: AOTEAROA (NEW ZEALAND)

70 Minutes • WATCH NOW

If an Owl
Calls Your Name

LAND: Esk’etemc, Gitxsan, and Wet’suwet’en (CANADA)

92 MINUTES • WATCH NOW

In the Circle
of Life

LAND: BUNDJALUNG & WIRADJURI (AUSTRALIA)

75 Minutes • WATCH NOW

Katô: Dreams
of Dark Earth

LAND: DAJE KAPAP EYPI (BRAZIL)

76 MINUTES • WATCH NOW

Little Singer

LAND: DINÉ BIKÉYAH (ARIZONA)

81 MINUTES • COMING May 26 – 28, 2026

Sila

LAND: KALAALLIT NUNAAT (GREENLAND)

COMING 2026

Kupuna ʻĀina

LAND: MOKUPUNI HAWAI’I

COMING 2026

Flowers of The Earth

LAND: MATO GROSSO DO SUL (BRAZIL)

COMING 2026

Maasai

LAND: OLOSHO LE MAA (KENYA)

COMING 2027

Haida

LAND: HAIDA GWAII (CANADA)

COMING 2027

Ifá

LAND: TSENACOMOCO (VIRGINIA)

COMING 2027

See other films from SAND:

The Eternal Song

Where Olive Trees Weep

LAND: Palestine

104 Minutes • WATCH NOW

The Wisdom of Trauma

LAND: Turtle Island

87 MINUTES • WATCH NOW

In the Circle
of Life

The Eternal Song

LAND: EARTH

Mauri

LAND: AOTEAROA (NEW ZEALAND)

If an Owl Calls
Your Name

LAND: UNIST’OT’EN YIN’TAH (CANADA)

In the
Circle of Life

LAND: BUNDJALUNG & WIRADJURI (AUSTRALIA)

Katô:
Dreams of Dark Earth

LAND: DAJE KAPAP EYPI (BRAZIL)

Little Singer

LAND: DINÉ BIKÉYAH (ARIZONA)

Sila

LAND: KALAALLIT NUNAAT (GREENLAND)

Kupuna ʻĀina

LAND: MOKUPUNI HAWAI’I

Flowers of The Earth

LAND: MATO GROSSO DO SUL (BRAZIL)

Maasai

LAND: OLOSHO LE MAA (KENYA)

Haida

LAND: HAIDA GWAII (CANADA)

Ifá

LAND: TSENACOMOCO (VIRGINIA)

See other films from SAND:

Where Olive Trees Weep

LAND: Palestine

The Wisdom of Trauma

LAND: Turtle Island

If you know your songs, then you know your country and if you know your country, you're never lost.

Dhinawan Baker, Artist, Cultural Custodian, Kamilaroi, Bigambul

Brother, it's not your mind that's sick. It's your spirit. And when you heal your spirit, you'll get well.

Joe Williams, Associate Professor, Professional Athlete Wiradjuri, Wolgalu

In more than 200,000 years, no army was ever built. We built relationships. No fort was ever built, no castle was ever built, not because we never had the technology, because we built this family kinship connection with one another right across the country.

Paul Gordon, Cultural Custodian Ngemba, Barkindji, Muruwarri

It's time to stand up before all is dead. For you see, our mother will survive, but us humans will be memories of bygone days.

Paul Gordon, Cultural Custodian Ngemba, Barkindji, Muruwarri

The Indigenous healing practices stand in their own integrity. The land hold stories, the land holds memories, the land holds the stories of the colonizations, the slaughters, the massacres and we, from that land heal when we claim those stories back.

Judy Atkinson, Author We Al-li Founder Jiman, Bundjalung

I will unconditionally love humanity and I will light fire and I will sit with them until they feel.

Kylie Miles, Fire Tender Githabul, Ngarakwal

Take away our connection to the earth, that takes away our safety.

Jarmbi Miles, Cultural Facilitator Githabul, Ngarakwal

Within three generations of first contact in any part of Australia, 90% of the Aboriginal population were dead from massacres and starvation and disease.

Paul Callaghan, Author Worimi

We've been here many times before and we'll be here many times after. Not always in human form, so everything is an ancestor.

Paul Gordon, Cultural Custodian Ngemba, Barkindji, Muruwarri

Ceremony is not actually about you. It's about everything ahead of us, honoring everything that was before us and everything that is now.

Kyliego Kazoviyo

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SAND is a nonprofit organization under section 501.c.3 of the US tax code. Its headquarters are on the unceded ancestral territories of Coastal Miwok and Southern Pomo Land in Sebastopol, CA. We thank the past, current, and future Indigenous stewards of this territory.

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