Carlos Sanson Jr and Shantae Barnes-Cowan in Sweet As.

A fresh new trailer has just dropped for Sweet As ahead of the film’s Perth premiere at the WA Made Film Festival, and the recent announcement that the film will make its European premiere at the Berlin Film Festival next month in the Generation Kplus strand, which is aimed at a youth audience.

In remote Pilbara country in Western Australia, troubled 16 year old Indigenous girl, Murra, finds herself abandoned after an explosive incident with her addict mother. On the cusp of being lost in the child protection system, an unusual lifeline is thrown her way by her uncle Ian, the local cop, in the form of a unique photo safari.

Before Murra knows it, she is careening down a dusty highway with a minibus full of at-risk teens and two charismatic team leaders. Will this be the lifeline Murra needs or the catalyst for her demise?

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An uplifting coming-of-age road movie about unconventional friendships, first crushes and finding who you are on the road less travelled.

Sweet As is directed by Jub Clerc and stars Shantae Barnes-Cowan, Mark Coles Smith, Ngaire Pigram, Carlos Sanson Jr, Pedrea Jackson, Mikayla Levy, Andrew Wallace and Tasma Walton.

Sweet As is coming to Australian cinemas on April 13 with previews April 7 – 10.