'People are starting to wake up': Berlin film festival spotlights Australia’s ‘unfinished business’

After Nightingale and Sweet Country swept Venice, stories highlighting Australian political injustice have dominated the country’s Berlinale contingent

“There’s always been a hunger for Indigenous stories that haven’t been given to an audience,” the Australian director Warwick Thornton says.

We’re at the Berlin international film festival where, later that day, the second season of Mystery Road – directed by Thornton and Wayne Blair – will premiere to rapturous applause.

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