“You know what it’s like to have a white fella take everything you have, don’t ya?” Clare (Aisling Franciosi) asks her traveling companion, Billy (Baykali Ganambarr), in the trailer for 1825 Tasmania-set “The Nightingale.” It’s clear they both know. Clare is Irish ex-con whose family was killed at the hands of British soldiers. Billy is an Aboriginal man whose people are routinely harassed and murdered by British colonizers.

Billy says he doesn’t “want no trouble” when he meets Clare. Clare, on the other hand, is determined to get revenge. She convinces Billy to help her track down Hawkins (Sam Claflin), the man who assaulted her and orchestrated the murder of her husband and child, through the Tasmanian wilderness.

Written and directed by Jennifer Kent, “The Nightingale” was the sole woman-directed title to screen in Competition at the 2018 Venice Film Festival, where it took home the Special Jury Prize. It has also screened at Sundance and Australia’s Adelaide Film Festival, among others.

Kent made her feature directorial debut with 2014’s “The Babadook,” a critically acclaimed horror story about a mother and son. She has another feature in the works, “Alice + Freda Forever.” Based on a true story, the pic will center on two young woman who fall in love in Memphis, Tennessee in the 1890s.

“The Nightingale” opens August 2.