One of contemporary international cinema’s most vital voices, Australian Kaytetye filmmaker Warwick Thornton spotlights the history, lives, and experiences of Australia’s Indigenous community, weaving elements of traditional Aboriginal storytelling into works of immense beauty, pain, and power. Since breaking through with his Cannes prizewinner SAMSON AND DELILAH—a wrenching portrait of the relationship between two troubled Aboriginal teenagers—Thornton (who also serves as cinematographer on nearly all his work) has continued to evolve in surprising directions, as seen in his acclaimed SWEET COUNTRY, a stylish Outback-set western that confronts Australia’s history of racism and brutality.
Directed by Warwick Thornton • 2009 • Australia
Starring Rowan McNamara, Marissa Gibson, Mitjili Napanangka Gibson
Winner of Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Warwick Thornton’s feature debut is a heartrending and tender vision of young love on the extreme margins of Australian society. T...
Directed by Warwick Thornton • 2013 • Australia
Starring Deborah Mailman, Bryan Brown, Aaron Pedersen
Director Warwick Thornton assembles a collection of poignant, sad, funny, and absurd Indigenous ghost stories from across Australia and brings them to life. Touching on the painful history of mi...
Directed by Warwick Thornton • 2017 • Australia
Starring Hamilton Morris, Bryan Brown, Sam Neill
Based on a true story, this spellbinding revisionist western unfolds amid the harsh yet starkly beautiful landscapes of Australia in the 1920s. It’s there that simmering tensions between neighbors fo...
Directed by Warwick Thornton • 2002 • Australia
Starring Sophie Lee, Aaron Pedersen, David Gulpilil
A white collector of Aboriginal art gets a shock when the Mimi sculpture she purchased comes to life in this cunning satire of an industry that values Indigenous art without appreciating the cultu...
Directed by Warwick Thornton • 2005 • Austrlia
Starring Ted Egan, Audrey Martin, David Page
Kenny, a DJ at an Aboriginal community radio station, jokes that his “Green Bush” show is broadcast to a “captive” audience—namely the local prison. While taking requests from those on the inside and out,...
