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As a broken, middle-aged horologist undertakes a secret project, his actions begin to unravel his marriage. With both spouses harbouring secrets, will they be able to confront their hidden truths or will their bond be shattered forever.
8 year old Joe has a Birthday he will never forget. After friends bully him, he sneaks off to the sick bay, wishing everyone in the world would go away. He wakes up to find his dream may have become a reality.
The softest souls have the wildest hearts.
Richee, a successful CEO of his own plumbing business, also has a training company for apprentices. He trains apprentices how to behave and how to succeed as a tradie. Are the things taught legal and ethical? Will he ever be scrutinized?
A woman who injured her eyes in car accident and a young blind man fall for each other.
A young teen struggles to navigate the floating drug world of the west, haunted by a familial past and an unknown future. A lone wolf comes to his defence, but it will take more than friendship to survive.
An Australian contemporary Western film.
Danger comes from the darkest hour.
The Douglas Mawson Antarctic Expedition of 1912 is considered one of the most amazing feats of endurance of all time. Although his two companions perished, Douglas Mawson survived, but how? In a bold historical experiment, scientist and adventurer Tim Jarvis is retracing the gruelling experience, with the same meagre rations, primitive clothing and equipment to uncover what happened to Mawson physically — and mentally — as a man hanging on the precipice of life and death.
A farmer dreams his seed becomes a big tree.
The Greenhouse is a magic-realist drama that centres on the eldest child of two women, Beth, who discovers a portal into the past on their family property. On the cusp of her widowed mother Ruth's sixtieth birthday and the return of her dysfunctional siblings Drew, Doonie and Raf, Beth is swept away by visions of their idyllic childhood and re-lives the moments that defined her adolescence. Despite Ruth's warnings, and as real-world tensions grow between the siblings, Beth becomes dependant on the greenhouse, soon realising it isn't the paradise she believed it to be.
Kate McLelland's life is a normal one of a girl her age in the eastern suburbs, until her discovery that she is adopted. This is the story of her search for her natural mother and the resulting relationship.
Clean hands is an Australian short film created by up and coming director Director Alvin Verghese and shot by Cinematographer Callum Saunders, with lead characters played themselves. Clean hands uses traditional Noir film techniques inspired by films like Double Indemnity and much more. Clean hands was produced with a budget of $20 and borrowed equipment, being of of the first produced by this duo.
It is a movie about three teen skaters, played by young Australian actors Richard Wilson, Sean Kennedy and Ho Thi Lu. Their characters Poker, Spasm and Blue Flame, are trying to escape the law, their school, their parents, their demons and a couple of low-life criminals to realise their burning ambition — to meet world class skating champion, Tony Hawk.
A disgraced sports star and gambling addict attempts to turn his life around with the support of his number one fan.
The year is 1933. Ruby Rose (Melita Jurisic) is an Australian woman living with her Welsh immigrant husband Henry (Chris Haywood) in the Tasmanian highlands. Cut off from her superjudgmental family, for whom Henry had once worked as a humble farm hand, Ruby remains isolated in her tiny house. Superstitiously terrified of the dark, she begins developing her own folklore about the inky blackness that surrounds her each night; this folklore eventually develops into Ruby's own personal religion, created to ward off the evils that she imagines lurk in every corner. Only by venturing out of her house and rekindling her relationship with her embittered father is Ruby able to exorcise her fears. Almost hypnotic in its stark beauty, Tale of Ruby Rose is proof enough that writer/director Roger Scholes deserves to be far better known.
When their car breaks down on the way to Queensland, a family is forced to take up residence at a caravan park while the father tries to earn enough money to get the car repaired.
Alex is in love with her best friend, Vicki, her mother has dissapeared and she sets fire to things in her spare time. Vicki comes from an abusive home and wants Alex to run away with her. Alex is a bit of a nerd and a teachers pet, so takes advantage of this by trying to seduce her drippy school teacher. Alex watches as Vicki, unable to escape her terrible homelife and an psychological wreck, sets alight to herself and burns to death.
Beatriz’s young husband disappears during the brutal Kraras massacre by occupying Indonesian forces, sixteen years later she is troubled by his return; is this mysterious stranger her husband, an impostor, or a spirit?
A schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not die in a car accident, as everyone else thinks.
When a Ukrainian actress arrives in Melbourne for a festival performance, her off stage antics reveal the true nature of her visit.
Inside the mind of a sleeping old man; memories of a loving childhood resurface. While a young man struggles to make sense of the world around him, and longs to return to the safe spaces that once defined him.
A self-obsessed young woman, Valerie, seemingly pays little attention to her boyfriend. Or does she?
A series of surreal short scenes portraying a suburban family and their everyday rituals.
In '60's-era Australia, a college freshman must navigate freshman hazing, a distant mother, and a shaky relationship with his girlfriend.
Esther (Alice Gold) is devastated by the murder of her chocolatier boyfriend - Nico (Jaron Herren). Reality becomes surrealised and distorted through her grief, as a web of secrets involving dear friends and sinister strangers is slowly revealed. Released for competition into the Edinburgh 48-Hour Film Festival 2019.
A black comedy/drama about a lonely ice-cream van driver, Warren Thompson, and his unhealthy obsession with television soap starlet, Katey George.
On her first day at a new school, a self conscious young girl learns that friendship can overcome difference.
A young musician struggles to come to terms with the re-emergence of his estranged father.
The president of Freedonia (the richest democracy of the world), and his mistress attend a dinner party in Europe. After an intoxicating evening, they go up to their hotel room where they decide to play "the game". The game is where their alter egos soar and anything can be said. After all, it's only a game. However, little by little, disturbing truths are revealed, ...until they cross the line...
Tony goes out for a few drinks when his lover, Steve goes on a business trip. Feeling lonely, he is picked up by another young man and they have semi-public sex only to be interrupted by gay-bashers. Although Tony is really hurt, he is more worried about how he'll explain this to Steve.
An animated short film raising awareness about periods, breaking the stigma and encouraging open, honest conversations. Created throughout 2023 for a minute-long film competition.
A getaway driver is forced by a detective to catch incriminating conversation from the crew that raised him, in order to gain a lighter sentence for himself.
Clyde is a typical junior clerk in a public service office. He watches the budding friendship between two co-workers and he turns it into the permanent office joke. At the same time he plays out his own neurotic relationship with a bored and frustrated secretary. The cruel mass victimisation of the young lovers is carried to the annual office picnic. Office tensions are changed by the unfamiliar surroundings where the disappearance of the two lovers forces Clyde to re-examine his own shallow emotional development.
The final night of Mark and Jeremy's relationship, they wait it out, trying to find the way to say goodbye.
An American military man moves his family to Australia to undergo training in submarine warfare, providing new challenges for his wife and their developmentally disabled son.
Jess has to come up with $800 or lose her house. A flat tyre leaves Joan stranded in the middle of nowhere. Matt needs a job. All these stories are brought together as what goes around comes around and they impact each other in a way they couldn't imagine.
A portrait of a young mechanical bull rider known as the Cyber Cowboy
Three men are reunited after 30 years by the echoes of a terrible crime. Old men now, and at the end of the line they are intrigued to meet a young girl named Sarah. Through her they are plunged back into the sordid (and hilarious) belly of Australia's underworld, both past and present.
Adapting to her new home in Melbourne, Vietnam War immigrant Hanh (9 years old) mistakes the cunningness of her new “friends” as an act of kindness, forcing her to come to terms with the reality of human betrayal through the loving and tender guide of her family - especially her father, Quan.
Roy decides karate is the answer to his bully problem, but his Dad can see that what his son needs right now is a champion Boxer.
A successful businessman's life is turned upside down when he is diagnosed with cancer. On the verge of giving up, he forms an unlikely bond with a gifted young girl who helps him re-discover his faith.
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In the middle of a French exam, 17 year old Charlie struggles to find the words to be true to himself…and his best friend.
Opera Australia's 1976 production of Lakmé, an opera in three acts by Léo Delibes, with a French libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille. Set in India during the British Raj, the story focuses on Lakmé, the daughter of a Hindu priest. Lakmé's life is troubled by her infatuation with a British officer.
A group of middle schoolers must convince their friend to perform in the school talent show after she reveals an embarrassing and fantastical secret.
When tragedy strikes a vain and materialistic housewife, she is forced to re-evaluate her lifestyle and vows to put her privilege to good use by seeking out the right person to inherit her wealth under the guise of an elderly woman who needs assistance cleaning her home.
Jess, a former country music child-star turned single mother, decides to make a comeback after a 15-year hiatus.
Vengeance motivates a young man to go to war with the corrupt fishing barons that rule his town, sending him on an epic journey that transforms him from a small-time abalone poacher into a criminal gang boss.
Rosie returns to her home city on the death of her father, a former policeman. His diaries hint at corruption, and she also receives hints and veiled threats which support her suspicions. Rosie puzzles about who he was, and about her early life and relationship to him.
A young girl witnesses a small glimpse of what the secret life of her father looks like as an immigrant parent.
When a local ranger in a small country town finds an unidentified algae overwhelming the town's water supply, he knows something's not right. But it's not until the sun goes down that he discovers the true extent of the danger – it seems the town is about to experience the effects of a mysterious infection that turns not only humans, but animals too, into zombies.
A man discovers that he has been deliberately poisoned and hasn't long to live. In the short time he has left, he determines to find out who poisoned him and why. Remake of the 1950 film noir classic, D.O.A.
After having a dream where they claim God told them that they have 7 days left to live, Charlie goes on a spiritual journey to find answers whist also experiencing the five stages of grief.
Three Government Men search for the illusive Instructions. Their efficiency is essential.
It's the beginning of the 1980s boom in Western Australia. Larrikin brothers Ray, Brian and Peter Mickelberg spend their days abalone fishing...
With most of the crew of the Noah-1 dead, it is left to the few survivors to save mankind.
A young photographer Simon Jess (David Cameron) is given an assignment to shoot some backgrounds for a fashion display in the Snowy Mountains.
Emme and Daniel have to pack up and divide the remaining items of their shared lives, forcing them to face the truth about their relationship.
When Alvin's ceiling begins oozing sticky brown sludge, he finds a peculiar escape from his sheltered existence