In 1829, Claire, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. She enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker named Billy, who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.
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Kent made history as the first female to win three major awards for the same film in the same year at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts.
IFC Films is re-teaming with “The Babadook” filmmaker Jennifer Kent on “The Nightingale,” a period thriller that will have its North American debut at this year’s Sund…
An Australian film on an Irish convict woman and an Aboriginal tracker in colonial Tasmania has been hailed the favourite to win the Golden Lion at the...