Sweet Country
– It’s 1929 on the vast, desert-like, Eastern Arrernte Nation lands that are now known as the Centra..
It’s 1929 on the vast, desert-like, Eastern Arrernte Nation lands that are now known as the Central Australian outback. Sam Kelly, a middle-aged Aboriginal man, works the land of a kind preacher, Fred Smith. After an ill-tempered bully arrives in town and Kelly kills him in self-defence, he and his wife go on the run as a posse gathers to hunt him down.
06 Apr 2018
English, Aboriginal
Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.
Warwick Thornton
Steven McGregor, David Tranter
Bryan Brown, Luka Magdeline Cole, Shanika Cole, Matt Day
Australian western set on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, where justice itself is put on trial when an aged Aboriginal farmhand shoots a white man in self-defense and goes on the run as a posse gathers to hunt him down.
5 wins & 8 nominations.
Samuel Goldwyn Films