WOLFRAM

On the colonial frontier of 1930s Australia, two swaggering outlaws descend upon a remote mining town, unleashing violence that drives two Aboriginal siblings to escape the white masters who have forced them into child labor. Fleeing across the vast desert “sweet country” of Central Australia, the children must rely on each other as they search for safety, family, and a way home. Set in the same stark universe as Warwick Thornton’s 2017 Venice-winning SWEET COUNTRY, WOLFRAM expands the filmmaker’s vision of Australia’s brutal colonial past through a story both tough and deeply tender. Featuring a standout Deborah Mailman alongside remarkable young performers, the film explores the devastating legacy of separation—of parents from children, siblings from siblings, and people from their own humanity. At once an elemental outback Western and an intimate family drama, WOLFRAM is a powerful story of survival, reckoning, resilience, and love, following two children’s extraordinary journey toward freedom and belonging.