Sweet Country

Sweet Country

Year: 2018
Director: Warwick Thornton
Genre: Australian, Drama, History
Runtime: 113 min

Synopsis:
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.

Available for licensing in Australia

Rating: MA

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