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When

Occurs on Sunday February 11 2018

Approximate running time: 1 hour and 53 minutes

Venue

Yukon Arts Centre Mainstage
300 University Drive
Whitehorse YT Y1A 5X9

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An outback western inspired by real events, Warwick Thornton’s Sweet Country is a story of personal conviction and settler justice set in the stark panoramas of Australia’s Northern Territory. Justice itself is put on trial when an aged Aboriginal farmhand shoots a white man in self defense and goes on the run as posse gathers to hunt him down. Although his film takes place in 1929, Thornton’s central concerns about colonialism, law, and power have a compelling contemporary resonance. Directed by Warwick Thornton. 114 minutes