"The Sweet Country"

"The Sweet Country" is a 2017 Australian film set in the 1920s featuring Indigenous and non-Indigenous characters in the Australian outback. It explores themes of justice, racism, and survival through the story of an Indigenous man who shoots a white man in self-defense. Pursued as an outlaw, he seeks safety while confronting societal prejudice and moral dilemmas. The film offers a gritty, realistic portrayal of frontier life and the complex relationships between different cultural groups, highlighting issues of injustice, discrimination, and the unstable nature of law in a remote, rugged landscape.