''Sweet As'' is an Australian coming-of-age drama film, directed by

Jub Clerc Jub Clerc is a Nyulnyul and Yawuru film director and screenwriter from Australia. She is most noted for her 2022 debut feature film '' Sweet As'', which won the Innovation Award at the 2022 Melbourne International Film Festival, and the NETPAC Awar ...

and released in 2022. The film stars Shantae Barnes-Cowan as Murra, an

Indigenous Australian Indigenous Australians or Australian First Nations are people with familial heritage from, and membership in, the ethnic groups that lived in Australia before British colonisation. They consist of two distinct groups: the Aboriginal peoples ...

girl from a troubled family who discovers a passion for photography while participating in a youth retreat. The cast also includes

Mark Coles Smith Mark Coles Smith (born 1989) is an Indigenous Australian actor originally from Broome in Western Australia. He is known for his roles in '' Last Cab to Darwin'' (2015), '' Picnic at Hanging Rock'' (2018) and '' Occupation: Rainfall'' (2020), a ...

, Ngaire Pigram, Carlos Sanson Jr, Pedrea Jackson, Mikayla Levy, Andrew Wallace and

Tasma Walton Tasma Walton (born 19 August 1973) is an Australian television and film actress. Acting career Walton joined local radio station 6GE and trained as a production assistant and copy writer in her home town. She was accepted into the National Ins ...

. The film premiered in August 2022 at the

Melbourne International Film Festival The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) is an annual film festival held over three weeks in Melbourne, Australia. It was founded in 1952 and is one of the oldest film festivals in the world following the founding of the Venice Film Fest ...

, where Clerc won the Innovation Award. It had its international premiere at the

2022 Toronto International Film Festival The 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, the 47th event in the Toronto International Film Festival series, is scheduled to be held from September 8 to 18, 2022. Festival organizers have indicated that the 2022 festival will be staged primar ...

, where it won the

NETPAC Award The Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) is a worldwide organization of 29 member countries. It was created as the result of a conference on Asian cinema organized by Cinemaya, the Asian Film Quarterly, in New Delhi in 1990 at the inst ...

for best film from the Asia/Pacific region.Christian Zilko
"‘The Fabelmans’ Wins TIFF 2022 People’s Choice Award"
''

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'', September 18, 2022.

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* 2022 films 2022 drama films Australian coming-of-age drama films Films about Aboriginal Australians 2020s Australian films {{2020s-Australia-film-stub