Sundance 2018: Warwick Thornton’s SWEET COUNTRY Trailer

A new trailer has been released for the upcoming Australian Western Sweet Country, which tells the true story of an Aboriginal man who must go on the run after killing a white man in self defense. The film is directed by Warwick Thornton and stars Sam Niel, Bryan Brown, Hamilton Morris, and Ewen Leslie.

Sweet Country will be opening in theaters this Spring.

SWEET COUNTRY draws on the conventions of the American Western to explore the genesis of contemporary Australian racism and the generational neglect of Aboriginal people. It’s 1929 on the vast, desert-like Eastern Arrernte Nation lands that are now known as the Central Australian outback. Sam Kelly (Hamilton Morris), a middle-aged Aboriginal man, works the land of a kind preacher, Fred Smith (Sam Neill). After an ill-tempered bully arrives in town and Kelly kills him in self-defense, he and his wife, Lizzie, go on the run as a posse gathers to hunt him down.