Charlie's Country (2013)

Directed by

Rolf de Heer

Genre

drama film

Country

Australia

Runtime

1h 48m

Rated

18+

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 55 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An Indigenous Australian man named Charlie struggles to live by his traditional ways in a modern world that makes that hard. The story follows his quiet efforts to stay connected to his culture and his land.

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What happens

Charlie's Country is a 2013 Australian drama film directed by Rolf de Heer. It was selected to compete in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival where David Gulpilil won the award for Best Actor. It was also screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival and awarded the Best Fiction Prize and the Youth Jury Prize at the 2015 International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH) in Geneva. The film was selected as the Australian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards, but was not nominated. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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