Sweet Country

Sweet Country

Justice itself is put on trial

2018113 min6.6 / 10

A morally urgent Western that puts systemic racism and colonial injustice on trial through the pursuit of an Aboriginal man defending himself against abuse.

In 1929, an Australian Aboriginal stockman kills a white station owner in self-defense and goes on the lam, pursued by a posse.

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