Wolfram, the new film from one of Australia’s foremost directors Warwick Thornton, will screen next month In Competition at the 2026 Berlin Film Festival. The selection was announced overnight.

Starring the brilliant Deborah Mailman alongside Erroll Shand, Joe Bird, Thomas M Wright, Matt Nable and Pedrea Jackson, and produced by Bunya Productions’ Greer Simpkin and David Jowsey, Wolfram is a taut frontier western where Aboriginal child labourers in the wolfram (tungsten) mines confront colonial brutality and injustice.

Inspired by the family stories of Thornton and Tranter and set against the backdrop of the 1930s colonial frontier, when two swaggering outlaws roll into town to strike it rich in the mines, they unleash a wave of cruelty that shatters the community’s fragile balance and leads three irrepressible kids to break free from their white masters – and set off across the “sweet country” of central Australia in search of a safe home.

Wolfram is written by Steven McGregor and David Tranter, with Tranter co-producing with Drew Bailey.

Wolfram will then be released in Australian cinemas on April 30.

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