Direction: Warwick Thornton

Direction Warwick Thornton

Cast Hamilton Morris · Bryan Brown · Sam Neill · Thomas M. Wright

Synopsis Inspired by real events, Sweet Country is a period western set in 1929 in the outback Northern Territory. When Aboriginal stockman Sam (Hamilton Morris) kills white station owner Harry March (Ewen Leslie) in self-defence, Sam and his wife Lizzie (Natassia...

Direction Warwick Thornton

Cast Rowan McNamara · Marissa Gibson · Mitjili Napanangka Gibson · Scott Thornton

Synopsis 15 year-old Samson lives in a small isolated Warlpiri community in the Central Australian desert. Awakened to the reggae riffs of his brother’s ambition-less band, he reaches for the can of petrol for a long morning sniff. There’s nothing to...

Direction Guillermo Arriaga · Héctor Babenco · Bahman Ghobadi · Emir Kusturica

Cast Demian Bichir · Emir Kusturica · Sarai Givaty · Emilio Echevarría

Synopsis Composed of 10 short films on the major religions in the world. The directors are: Jose Padilha (Brazil), Warwick Thornton (Australia), Bahman Ghobadi (Iran), Mira Nair (India), Hideo Nakata (Japan), Emir Kusturica (Serbia) and Guillermo Arriaga (Mexico). This whole film,...

Direction Warwick Thornton

Cast Cate Blanchett · Aswan Reid · Deborah Mailman · Wayne Blair

Synopsis Depicts the mesmeric story of a 9-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery run by a renegade nun.

Direction Tony Ayres · Jonathan Auf Der Heide · Cate Blanchett · Jub Clerc

Cast Cate Blanchett · Rose Byrne · Miranda Otto · Richard Roxburgh

Synopsis A collection of short films based on stories by Australian writer Tim Winton.

Direction Warwick Thornton

Synopsis After Australian filmmaker Warwick Thornton set up an appeal for people to tell him their own personal ghost stories, he was met with an enthusiastic response. Both whites and Aborigines told him of their encounters with the other side. Spirits,...

Direction Warwick Thornton

Cast Warwick Thornton

Synopsis 6 episodes. Australia's acclaimed indigenous filmmaker retreats to a remote beach where he spends several months with no power and only the land to provide sustenance.

Direction Warwick Thornton

Synopsis It explores Australia’s cultural heritage and the relationship between the aboriginals and the white people who later settled the continent.

Direction Tony Krawitz · Brendan Fletcher · Warwick Thornton

Cast Shantae Barnes-Cowan · Rob Collins · Callan Mulvey · Tessa Rose Jackson

Synopsis Following two indigenous Australian hunters to battle the last colony of vampires in the South-Australian desert. Premiere: December 16 on AMC+.