Sweet Country

Following its world premiere screening in Competition at the 2017 Venice Film Festival, SWEET COUNTRY received a standing ovation and has garnered outstanding international critical reviews. The film won the SPECIAL JURY PRIZE at the 2017 Venice Film Festival and has gone on to win numerous awards around the world including the prestigious Platform section of the 2017 Toronto Film Festival, Best Feature Film at the 2017 Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Best Dramatic Film ImagineNATIVE festival 2017, the Audience Award at the Adelaide Film Festival, Best Feature Screenplay at Australian Writers Guild and Critics Awards at Camerimage, Luxembourg, Venice  and Dublin Film Festivals.

Inspired by real events, Sweet Country is a period western set in 1929 in the outback of the Northern Territory, Australia.

When Aboriginal stockman Sam (Hamilton Morris) kills white station owner Harry March (Ewen Leslie) in self-defence, Sam and his wife Lizzie (Natassia Gorey-Furber) go on the run. They are pursued across the outback, through glorious but harsh desert country.

Sergeant Fletcher (Bryan Brown) leads the posse with the help of Aboriginal tracker Archie (Gibson John) and local landowners Fred Smith (Sam Neill) and Mick Kennedy (Thomas M. Wright). Fletcher is desperate to capture Sam and put him on trial for murder – but Sam is an expert bushman and he has little difficulty outlasting them. Will Sam be captured and will justice be served?