The great Australian actor David Gulpilil won the Best Actor prize in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival for his engaging performance in this semi-autobiographical drama about an Aboriginal man who journeys into the Outback to live in the traditional ways of his ancestors.

[John Stackhouse, Senior Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs, is an award-winning journalist and previously served as the editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail from 2009 to 2014. He will speak about Charlie’s Country in a Q&A session following the second screening of the film.]