Driven by the devastation of Cyclone Larry on Australia's banana supply, Omid, a young refugee, sets out alone and on foot, headed for the promise of a banana utopia, the Big Banana.
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Driven by the devastation of Cyclone Larry on Australia's banana supply, Omid, a young refugee, sets out alone and on foot, headed for the promise of a banana utopia, the Big Banana.
On Australia's most controversial national holiday, the lives of three Australians from diverse cultural backgrounds will collide, illuminating contemporary issues of racial tension and national identity that simmer beneath the surface of modern Australia.
Based on the true events surrounding Frank Sinatra's tour of Australia. When Sinatra calls a local reporter a "two-bit hooker", every union in the country black-bans the star until he issues an apology.
Unable to tap into his emotions on stage, a middle-aged struggling actor is given one last chance to prove himself, and in turn, takes a class with an acting coach who promises to transform his performance.
A man haunted by his past is led on a surreal, dark journey through the night, only to be confronted by his sins in the presence of the stars he once loved...
Somewhere in Australia in the early 20th century outback, an Aboriginal man is accused of murdering a white woman. Three white men are on a mission to capture him with the help of an experienced Indigenous man.
An ambitious soap actress, unable to find the authenticity in a break-up scene she is rehearsing, turns to her unsuspecting boyfriend, and plays out the scene for real.
Kate Fletcher has the perfect apartment. Everything is computer controlled. It is the home of her dreams until a psychotic man begins to execute the violent orders he hears from his long dead sister.
A Young, Alienated teen with an affinity recorded video, goes through his weekly routines with emotional distance and emptiness, but after an encounter with someone, he soon develops a fascination that could turn dangerous.
The adventures of Ginger Mick take him from slums and backyards to lock-ups and racecourses. He romances Rose, works as a rabbitoh and enlists to fight in World War I.
A group of workers at a factory re-enact The Battle of Agincourt in cardboard suits of armour. King Henry rallies his troops with an inspirational speech as they face an overwhelming French army. When the French messenger offers ransom The King rejects the bargain and the battle ensues in a flurry of cardboard. And death. But mostly cardboard.
Set in Sydney's western suburbs, FOOTY LEGENDS tells the story of Luc Vu, a young man with an obsession about football. Out of work, and with welfare authorities threatening to take away his little sister, Luc re-unites his old high school football team to win a competition that could change all their lives.
A teenage boy from Tasmania is drawn into a petty crime gang in Melbourne.
The world is on the brink of major social and economic collapse, and powerful billionnaire Malcolm Hunt has the solution. Malcolm invites eight 'candidates' to a house in the country for a weekend adn each must prove themselves worthy of attending a prestigious world summit call 'Advanced Earth'. But when they awake on their frst morning in the house, the candidates fnd themselves trapped, cut off from the outside world, and the true, terrifying purpose of Advanced Earth is revealed...
Psycho Joe loves one thing: fast cars! When he gets a job at a local supermarket, Joe meets fellow "petrol head" Dazey, who quickly becomes his idol and best friend. Soon after, Joe falls for Savina, a goth girl who practices black magic. But Savina has already fallen for Dazey and will do anything to get him -- including using Joe's feelings for her. In true Shakespearean fashion, this trio race down the road to tragedy.
Mick and Kev – bored, unemployed and aimless in the western suburbs of Sydney – decide to rob a bank, more or less for the fun of it.
A young man named Phillip finds himself in a purgatory reality that's littered with clues of his past life. From the discovery of his own corpse to the mysterious connection with a woman scheduled for an abortion, Phillip slowly reveals this doomed fate by his own hands.
A spirited young girl in small town Australia forms a meaningful bond with a wild emu as she tries to cope with her beleaguered father, a naïve social worker, and her own painful grief in the aftermath of her mother’s sudden death.
A young cross-dresser tries to hide the fact that he's impulsively wearing red lingerie on a first date.
A group of people believe the city is a maze and are obsessively searching for the lost exit.
When Amber discovers she is pregnant, she hides the news from her fellow drug dealing boyfriend Jacob, who spends his night snorting coke. After a chaotic night at a rave, Ambers future is left fractured and uncertain.
Wealthy Peter Sterling and his younger wife Christine have an existence of little excitement so when a stranger comes into their lives, she is intrigued. An affair turns into much more and they are soon plotting to rob Peter of a precious gemstone.
A family is forced off their farm due to drought, and move to Sydney.
The True story of Stephen Walls, a young Australian farm boy, whose disappearance galvanized a continent into action. Taught to be wary of strangers, the boy cannot know that the boisterous hordes of volunteers are his saviors and not his enemies.
A woman visits a personal stretcher, only to have unexpected objects pulled out of her body. A near silent witness statement to the reopening of invisible wounds in an abstract pursuit of healing.
A shell-shocked photojournalist, haunted by what he has witnessed on assignment in Africa, returns home on the eve of becoming a father. When one of his photographs threatens to destroy a Sudanese refugee's new life, the two men are reunited by nightmare events from the past.
Three people discover jealousy and larceny are a dangerous combination in this tense drama. John (Bryan Brown) is a veteran insurance investigator who succumbs to temptation and veers towards the wrong side of the law. With the help of novice con man Ben (Tom Long), John hatches a scheme to substantiate false claims by taking a percentage of several questionable claims his firm has settled for a fraction of their usual worth. John and Ben are assisted in their illegal business by Louise (Claudia Karvan), a lawyer with a cocaine problem who is also John's lover. But when Louise becomes involved with Ben and demands a bigger share of the money, their already-shaky confidence game begins to collapse.
Dramatisation of the 1991 perjury trial of former Queensland state Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen.
Simon Henderson is at boarding school in Canada while his father works in Hong Kong, and his mother lives in England. When his parents visit him in the holidays, Simon discovers that his mother has schizophrenia.
Five Sydney-based youngsters navigate life, experience friendship, seek love, delve into their sexuality, and face the challenges of being a part of the LGBTQ+ community.
Davaa and Zaya are a young nomadic couple in the vast Bayanhongor region of Mongolia who are in the throes of animal birthing season when a seismic event suddenly changes their lives. They are forced to migrate afar but are haunted by their past lives.
In 1950s Australia, young Celia is growing up with a sense of isolation and mistrust of the world that surrounds her. Her mother and father won't let her play with the kids next door because their parents are communists. Then her pet bunny is taken away because of rabbit overpopulation. And, more traumatizing yet, when her grandmother dies, she's the one to discover the corpse. To cope, she retreats into elaborate fantasies.
Set in the near future, Earth's resources are gone and humanity fight for survival. Myles, a young self-centered man, must journey to find Sanctuary with a youthful ally named Tessa. While the shadow of the cruel Cyrus creeps ever closer to Myles - and his past.
In a future where social media dominates every moment of our lives, "X" has attained unprecedented celebrity but obscurity is just a click away.
When two former lovers reunite through returned belongings, the future of their relationship is tested by the feelings that still remain.
The surreal and darkly funny rise and fall of energy darling Enron, whose multi-billion dollar loss changed the financial landscape forever.
Drama and tensions rise as two determined partners in a successful Australian fashion empire will stop at nothing to achieve individual success.
The friendship of two 15-year-old boys – one black, one white – begins to fall apart under the stress of a changing world.
Jane is experiencing the most tragic days of her life. She longs for peace and space to grieve, but finds neither of these in the company of Milktooth, the mischievous child who appeared when it all began
Penny is in her mid-twenties. For years she has suffered from the sexual assaults of her father, who is now beginning to take an interest in her younger sister. She tries to convince her mother and sister of her situation as an incest victim, but they just ignore her. The father tries to keep his secret by isolating Penny, but eventually she is old enough and confident enough to break free, though not without the emotional scars of years of abuse.
Ibsen's play, adapted to Australia, concerns a couple forced to answer for their daughter's legitimacy.
Cute teen Midget Hollow wanders through life riding big waves and partying with surfer boys. When Midget's best friend's gay brother Cass arrives on the scene, the two quickly dive head first into a clandestine sea of sexual awakening.
Actress Maria, and filmmaker Luke, travelled from LA to Spain in March 2020 to get married. The pandemic caused them to cancel the wedding, and forced them into lockdown with Luke’s mum, Karen, who had travelled all the way from Australia. Luke filmed it all and put it online as a series. They cancelled their wedding again when Maria fell pregnant. Luke filmed that too. Maria is now determined to get married. Luke, feeling stuck in Spain, thinks the only way to enjoy the wedding and cling to his old dreams is to film it. For Maria, sick of their life being public, it’s the final straw.
An independent Australian horror/drama that explores the societal norms that break down among a small group of survivors in a post-apocalyptic world. Ravenous hordes of infected zombies terrorize the survivors, but it is the horror within their own sanctuary that they must fear the most.
Kirsten is a 14 year old girl who lives in an isolated Australian country town. Laura is a businesswoman on her way to Brisbane. When their journeys coincide Kirsten and Laura make a connection that runs deeper than their differences.
Four twenty-somethings take a road trip through California to not find themselves.
Linh (Nammi Le) is a Vietnamese Australian university student who secretly starts part-time work as an escort. She develops a close rapport with one of her clients, an enigmatic American art dealer, who books her on a regular basis. For a time she manages to keep her two lives in separate compartments. But when she falls for a fellow student her worlds collide and she must deal with the emotional chaos that follows.
A country football coach who has a plan to rebuild the local football team by recruiting recently settled asylum seekers.
A feature film that depicts a touching love story between two young women, Meaghan and Louise, who confront mainstream religious beliefs that pose a threat to their romantic relationship. Meaghan, who is rejected by her parents due to her sexuality, pretends to have undergone religious conversion therapy to become heterosexual. Louise, on the other hand, is openly gay and deeply in love with Meaghan, but Meaghan struggles to come to terms with her own feelings and hides them. Amidst the challenges, threats, and intimidation by those who claim to be 'believers,' will the couple's love ultimately triumph?
Set in Perth, Western Australia, Mark reasons with a detective after he is brought in for questioning regarding the brutal murder of his estranged father in a dark and empty parking lot.
The story of notorious Australian bank robber Brendan Abbott, who according to the myth, sent postcards to authorities hot on his trail while on the run across the country.
Macbeth, loyal to his crime boss, Duncan, is told by witches that he will one day take over. Driven by their prophecy, he and his wife plot to kill Duncan, and takes the leadership of the gang for himself. Maintaining his power will require more murder and violence, finally driving his surviving enemies to unite and destroy him. A sexy, high octane retelling of this classic story.
A look at the challenges of living in a small Australian town, portrayed through the lens of a novelist and her teenage son.
A task force is sent to a small country town to investigate a shocking crime.
Set against the backdrop of the Three Kings holiday in Barcelona, Baltasar depicts a Senegalese man’s diligent attempts to make ends meet in a new land – and how swiftly it can all be taken away.
We are a constantly evolving culture. A culture eternally cycling, dying, and being reborn. The cities we live in, the jobs we have shape our direction, but are we heading in the right direction?
Resigned to a life of sadness and regret at his hideous treatment of his wife many years ago, Trevor, an aging ex-con, spends his lonely life walking his dog and staying out of trouble. One morning he stumbles upon Melissa, a woman desperate, afraid, and operating on a knife's edge of panic. She's killed her abusive husband and is frantically trying to bury him. Sizing up the situation, Trevor recognizes the pain in her eyes and sees a way to save Melissa, and to redeem himself in the process. But the price of freedom and redemption will be higher than either of them could have ever imagined...
Shayda, a young Iranian woman living in Australia, finds refuge in a women’s shelter with her 6-year-old daughter, Mona. Having fled her husband, Hossein, and filed for divorce, Shayda struggles to maintain normalcy for Mona. Buoyed by the approach of Nowruz, she tries to forge a fresh start with new and unfettered freedoms. But when a judge grants Hossein visitation rights, he reenters their life, stoking Shayda’s fear that he’ll attempt to take Mona back to Iran.
A fire breaks out in a multi-story hospital in the middle of the night and a male nurse and a nursing sister save many lives during a fire in a major hospital.
1902....the Australian Federation is a year old. Twelve year-old Tom's father, Nat, has dragged him and his sister, Sarah, to an isolated farm at the edge of the woods. But Nat's dream of living off the land has died and he is losing his grip on sanity. When three ex-soldiers arrive at their cabin one night Tom, like his father, believes they are providence.